Lorne Michaels reacts to Ashlee Simpson’s ‘SNL’ lip-sync disaster in unaired clip: ‘There’s just egg out there now’
nypost.cominfamous 2004 lip-sync disaster.A recent episode of the “60 Minutes: A Second Look podcast” features never-before-heard audio from Michaels, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers and Darrell Hammond during that episode, which aired Oct.
23, 2004. That same week, “60 Minutes” was doing a feature on “SNL,” and they captured Michaels’ reaction. “Oh, I think accidents happen.
I think that’s the nature of live television… there’s things that you’re not in control of,” Michaels is heard telling journalist Lesley Stahl in response to the Simpson debacle in the clip.During the incident, Simpson, the show’s musical guest, was outed for lip-syncing.She had performed her famous song “Pieces of Me,” but when she came onstage to perform her second song, “Autobiography,” the wrong vocals played from the earlier song.
Simpson reacted by panicking, dancing to try to cover it up and quickly walking offstage. Simpson, 39, reflected on the fiasco in a February 2024 interview on the “Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen” podcast.She said she “learned a lot” from the controversy, explaining that she had been 19 or 20 at the time. “I wrote all these songs and I did all this and almost to have your credit completely taken from you and you’re like, ‘No,’” Simpson said.
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