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The Anti-Defamation League is
fans, who, nevertheless, believed a
not amused by a Saturday Night Live
line was crossed."
satire in which cast members, posing
The gradually evolving brouhaha
as pop stars, said that Jews own all
started when SNL parodied an earlier
the. banks and that Christians have
CBS special, And So This Is
forgiven them for "killing our Lord."
Christmas, with a mock promotion
But NBC, after flip-flopping over
for an imaginary CBS show, called
whether it will air the sketch again in
And So This Is Chanuka.
reruns, finally decided it will not edit
Featured in the CBS Christmas
out the portion that offended some
special were Celine Dion, Ricky
Jews.
Martin, Gloria Estefan and Babyface
The network said, in a statement,
singing carols and recalling their
that its viewers "overwhelmingly felt
childhood holidays.
that this sketch was a typical SNL
In the SNL "Chanuka" skit, cast
parody" while NBC acknowledged
members and guest Christina Ricci
that it is difficult
appeared as faux
to strike a "bal-
pop divas Dion,
ance between
Britney Spears and
being politically
Mariah Carey
correct and being
singing fake
funny in a non-
Chanuka songs.
hurtful way."
In a following
After the skit
scene, the faux
aired Dec. 4, ADL
Dion — played by
National Director
SNL regular Ana
Abraham Foxman
Gasteyer — said
dispatched a letter
that as a child she
to Rosalyn
was told that
Weinman, NBC's
Chanuka "is a holi-
head of broadcast
day celebrated by
content policy,
the people who own
blasting the skit
all the movie stu-
for reviving "anti-
dios and the banks.
Semitic stereo-
Ricci, as Britney
types at their
Spears, followed
worst" and calling Christina Ricci: Did she cross the line
up, saying that at
it "a lame attempt in a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit? this time of the
at humor."
year, "We, as
Foxman said he
Christians, take
was reacting to widespread protests
time out to think about forgiving our
by viewers.
Jewish friends for killing our Lord."
In her response, W
. einman pledged
The following Monday, Foxman
to take the offending portion out of
said, "all the lights on our switch-
the sketch in reruns. But later, NBC
board lit up. So we got a transcript
said that the entire matter was "under
of the skit and felt that it had
review."
crossed the line of legitimate satire."
Lorne Michaels, the executive pro-
In his letter to NBC's Weinman,
ducer of Saturday Night Live, also
Foxman noted, "We have worked
joined in the fray, telling the
with the Vatican and others for the
Washington Post that the ADL "trivi-
last 50 years to educate against this
alizes the important work they're sup-
poisonous doctrine and for SNL, in a
posed to be doing with this kind of
lame attempt at humor, to revive this
nonsense."
notion is unacceptable."
In a statement, Foxman accused
At the same time, the ADL direc-
NBC of choosing "the low road" in
tor recognized that SNL is a series
its decision to rerun the skit.
designed "to poke fun at institutions
"We still believe our concerns are
and individuals in society." He added
justified," he said. "We find selected
that other parts of the Chanuka
portions of the skit offensive and not
sketch, while perhaps offensive,
funny. We, too, have heard from
would fall into that legitimate irrev-
viewers, most of whom are avid SNL
erent category. "
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