Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels went to pretty ridiculous lengths to convince NBC executives to let Richard Pryor host the show’s seventh episode on Dec. 13, 1975.
Because the network feared Pryor was too profane and unpredictable, Michaels agreed to a five-second delay so that any curse words could be beeped — marking the first time that Saturday Night Live wasn’t live when it first aired.
It turned out the delay came in handy. Pryor avoided any four-letter words, but did use a three-letter word that rhymes with sass, twice.
According to Saturday Night, A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live, by Doug Hill and Jeff Weingard, the censor who was running the delay device let both uses of the word slip by. But both were edited out of the taped version broadcast on the West Coast.
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