‘Saturday Night Live’ Retroactively Censors Audience Cursing Aired On Peacock During Ego Nwodim’s Weekend Update Bit

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Lorne Michaels may have stewarded Saturday Night Live through half a century, but it’s not like the late-night show is immune to a couple of snafus.

During a call-and-response bit by the perennially charismatic Ego Nwodim on Weekend Update, the audience let out one of the FCC‘s “seven dirty words” — which has now been retroactively scrubbed as seen on the series’ social media pages.

The uncensored version saw, or rather heard, the audience shout “sh–” as Nwodim’s stand-up alter ego Ms. Eggy teed up a “These men ain’t what?” Naturally, the crowd did not hold back, shouting the profanity before the censors on Peacock could do anything about it. (Earlier during the bit, Nwodim’s character began, “Ms.

Eggy don’t what?” as the audience responded, “Play.” It was part of a routine in response to the White House pulling Amber Ruffin as a featured entertainer during its annual correspondents dinner.) Ego Nwodim shows us what her White House Correspondents’ dinner routine would have been pic.twitter.com/uGqixG739W While the audio on X is now completely eliminated, viewers can still see Nwodim and Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che’s shocked reactions.