Rather than sing the planned a cappella song “Scarlet Ribbons,” O’Connor’s manager informed SNL music coordinator John Zonars that O’Connor would, instead, be performing an a cappella rendition of Bob Marley’s “War.”Īnd, since the Irish singer intended for the song to bring attention to the issue of child abuse, she’d asked that the performance be filmed with a single camera, in close-up, so that her closing gesture (of her holding up a picture of a starving child), would be the lasting focus.
Still, by then nobody was thinking about him, General Electric, or much of anything else but that night’s musical guest.Īfter performing her first number, a typically striking rendition of the Loretta Lynn torch song “Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home," O’Connor returned to the Studio 8H stage having made a few last-minute requests. (Robbins, perhaps anticipating that outcome, included a scene in his sly 1992 political satire Bob Roberts, in which the guest host-played by Robbins’ pal John Cusack-is similarly shut down by a self-mythologizing “edgy” live late-night sketch show called Cutting Edge Live.) Robbins, with then-wife and fellow provocateur Susan Sarandon in the audience, eventually appeared in the goodnights for the show sporting an anti-GE T-shirt. The politically active actor had pitched a searing broadside against NBC's parent company and infamous polluters General Electric, which Michaels had rejected for the show, claiming the piece to be more pointed than funny. In the lead-up to the episode, show creator Lorne Michaels had all of his attention on outspoken host Tim Robbins.
3, 1992, when she tore up a picture of the Pope during her musical performance on Saturday Night Live. Singer Sinead O’Connor sparked outrage on Oct.
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