Lorne Michaels says he would’ve asked banned singer Sinead O’Connor to perform at SNL anniversary if she was still alive

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1. > Fielding a question about whether he, at any point, reconsidered calling “attention to one of SNL’s more controversial moments” with the song selection, Michaels said, “No” in response.

   > “If [O’Connor] were still alive, I would have asked her to sing that song,” Michaels confirmed to Puck. “But it was represented by Miley singing it with so much power.”

2. Who cares? He contributed to how she was treated

3. Be present, Lorne.

4. How convenient for you lorne

5. He had ample time before her death.

6. She ripped the image in ’92 and died in ’23… so she wasn’t in your good graces for 31 years up until what?

   Die. Yeah, she had to fucking die for you to make that statement. Nevermind all the years she could’ve used some help, not financially or artistically but help as a human being struggling

   So fuck on off with your precious anniversary

7. Easy to say now that she is dead

8. She was so right, a lot of things changed because of her she was a true hero, how Pesci was the next week was so sad and pathetic. She deserved such a better outcome, but the trailblazer usually gets all the hate

9. I think she would tell him to f— off.

10. I’m beginning to think LM is a real pos.

11. He sounds like a shithead

12. Surrrre and I could have beat up Harmabe so easily. Honestly it’s too bad he’s not around because I would and I could so easily.

13. That’s easy for him to say, I guess.

14. I think Lorne’s decisions are becoming increasingly more questionable.

    He deserves to get called out more than he has.

15. I was so confused by that backlash when it happened. I had family members who acted like she murdered their puppy and pissed on it. To me, it was just Sinéad being Sinéad. Punk rock to her core, that one. RIP.

16. In other news, Baseball Hall of Fame offers Pete Rose free admission on odd numbered weekdays.

17. Someone should ask him about Damon Wayans too! Loren’s season 11 indentured black cast member,* who Michaels only featured whenever a (another writers’) skit necessitated a black man; Likewise, whenever a skit needed a black woman, Lorne Michaels told Damon to put on a dress (if he wanted to get on TV)… until Wayans acted out and disrupted an on-air bit with ~~another~~ an unauthorized exaggerated stereotype performance… resulting in Lorne aggressively firing him on the spot.

    ^(* a hiring practice Loren Michaels exploited for almost 30 more year, until finally shamed for it in 2014)

18. What a useless statement…

19. If my grandmother had wheels she would be a bike.

20. Lest we forget, the inspiration for Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers films was Lorne Michaels. It’s pretty much Mike Myers doing his Lorne Michaels impression.

    Fun Fact (albeit unrelated): Dana Carvey has been in a film with Mike Myers AND a film with Michael Myers.

21. The last person I wanna hear talk about Sinead O’Connor is Lorne Micheals.

22. Lorne Michaels, the guy who hires the “funniest” people and then kneecaps them. All of the best SNL comics find an opportunity to walk away but all know better than badmouthing him.. wonder why?

23. I think Lorne can fuck off at this point, like all the way

24. Really easy to say that since she wasn’t 

25. Fuck Lorne Michaels. He was awful to Cassandra Peterson (Elvira) too.

    He’s a total asshole who gets away with it because no one wants to be banned from SNL.

26. Great timing, Lorne. Maybe you shouldn’t have banned her in the first place for dropping an uncomfortable truth.

27. Kris Kristofferson is the ONLY dude who ever stood up for Sinead. Lorne Michaels was absolutely not in her corner at any point in her life.

28. It’s easy to say after the fact

29. As a Catholic I have to admit I was mad when she did that. I’m from Boston, so we soon found out she was right. I owe her an apology, too.

30. Mmm, yes. So brave.

31. Sure you would Lorne. Sure you would

32. sinéad would have told him to get fucked.

33. And she would’ve told you to gfy

34. The kissass way every comedian ever talks about Lorne is so weird and gross.

35. This fuck had Trump on air. Normalizes him and elon muskrat.

36. They did this woman dirty. Fuck him the disingenuous piece of shit.

37. Lorne Michaels – Asshole

38. The Boston Globe’s Catholic Church story broke in 2001. Sinead died in 2023. You had 22 years to make that right, asshole.

39. Kris Kristofferson consoling her at a performance live onstage after she was getting booed restored a part of my soul.

40. Self serving lie.

41. She is an Irish hero. She exposed the Irish “pretend Catholic Church” for what it was.

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