Can you name the performers banned from Saturday Night Live? by buntz

Can you name the performers banned from Saturday Night Live?

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Enter a performer (last names acceptable) in the box below
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* Ban has been lifted, and he's since performed on the show. ** Host appeared again in 1997, and was again banned. He's appeared since, but not as host.
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Behavior	Performer	Episode
Rambling and incoherent during show, locked herself in her dressing room		Season 1, Episode 23 (1976)
Poor performance; he missed rehearsal and ad-libbed during show		Season 3, Episode 4 (1977)
Changed song at last minute to one he was requested to not play *		Season 3, Episode 8 (1977)
Tension with the cast, he obviously read cue cards and mugged for camera		Season 4, Episode 3 (1978)
Improvised, mugged for camera; he overacted in vaudeville style		Season 4, Episode 17 (1979)
On-air profanity, damaged studio with slam dancers they brought in		Season 7, Episode 4 (1981)
Mistreated cast; he threw crumpled script in cast member's face		Season 8, Episode 6 (1982)
Banned from show by audience phone-in vote		Season 8, Episode 7 (1982)

Behavior	Performer	Episode
Mistreated cast; he suggested an AIDS sketch to openly gay cast member **		Season 11, Episode 2 (1985)
On-air profanity, they were drunk during performance		Season 11, Episode 7 (1986)
Very difficult to work with, not funny; he suggested terrible sketches		Season 16, Episode 18 (1991)
Tore photograph of Pope John Paul II on air		Season 18, Episode 2 (1992)
Smoked marijuana on air, damaged their instruments		Season 19, Episode 2 (1993)
Profane monologue involving female genitalia		Season 19, Episode 14 (1994)
Improvised introduction to musical guest		Season 28, Episode 19 (2003)

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Saturday Night Live Banned Performers Quiz

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Created Jun 5, 2010 in Television
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	Fidelio:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 03:05 GMT		5 points
	Who would have thought that Robert Blake might be a bad egg?

	SlowHandEC88:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 03:42 GMT		4 points
	If the Stephen Seagal clues are right, then everybody currently involved with SNL should be banned from SNL.

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	Kahlvin:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 04:25 GMT		3 points
	Hah, the first star the show produced, Chevy Chase, was banned. Also, I remember hearing somewhere that Damon Wayans was fired and banned from the show.

	TheLastWaltz:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 08:05 GMT		2 points
	wasn't Andrew Dice Clay banned? or am I imagining this?

	Kicking222:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 12:49 GMT		2 points
	If you can find a legitimate source for this, I'm making it an Editor's Pick. But you have a note with an asterisk at the top, and then there's no asterisk in the quiz- who is it? It's Chevy, right?

	rockgolf:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 14:13 GMT		0 points
	I've seen this list elsewhere, maybe even on Sporcle, but it seems to be most apocryphal. There's no need to ban Berle or Zappa. They're dead. Other acts were brought in when they were hot, so there's no reason to expect the bands or performers to be seen in any capacity on SNL or elsewhere. Kaufman was legitimately banned, but he requested the on-air vote in the expectation of losing. It became part of his act. There's just not enough to differentiate "banned" in most cases from "just no good reason to ask back". Hell, de Niro hosted 3 times and he hasn't been funny even once.

	caramba:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 15:58 GMT		3 points
	Well, Lorne Michaels explicitly banned Berle right after the show aired and vowed never to broadcast that episode again (it has since been rebroadcast, I believe). I remember seeing that one; it was wretched, topped off by Berle telling racist jokes as part of his standup act.

	brusox20:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 17:13 GMT		3 points
	@Kahlvin Damon Wayans was fired but he did host an episode in 1995 and on another note Elvis Costello did come back and perform in 1989.

	brusox20:	Jan 26th, 2011 at 20:45 GMT		2 points
	@TheLastWaltz Andrew Dice Clay wasn't banned from the show. When he did host cast member Nora Dunn and the original musical guest Sinead O'Connor boycotted the episode due to his misogynistic comedy.

	JohnJF:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 02:36 GMT		4 points
	Okay, I didn't KNOW that Cypress Hill had smoked pot on-air. But how could that not be everyone's first guess?

	buntz:	Jan 27th, 2011 at 03:32 GMT		1 point
	@Kicking222 Fixed the asterisk and sourced.

	wallyballz:	Feb 4th, 2011 at 15:44 GMT		3 points
	If mugging for the camera gets you banned from SNL then how in the hell did Jimmy Fallon stay on for so long?

	MoneyGrip:	Feb 8th, 2011 at 05:11 GMT		1 point
	The Fear performance is legendary for good reasons, but the antics of the "punk kids" that SNL hired are even more so. "Negative Approach is gonna f--- you up!" ""New York sucks!"

	fishmonkeyfrog:	Feb 10th, 2011 at 02:01 GMT		0 points
	Mugging for the camera, noticably reading cue cards and not being funny have become the standard formula for SNL. I'm just glad Phil Hartman didn't have to see this.

	babybriggs21:	Feb 11th, 2011 at 17:17 GMT		0 points
	Chevy Chase wasn't banned...he's been on several times since you have him being banned here...nice try though.

	The_Bizzard:	Feb 19th, 2011 at 17:28 GMT		1 point
	Wasn't Rage Against the Machine banned in 1996? Missed that one

	pete32782:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 23:23 GMT		1 point
	The_Bizzard: I was expecting Rage to be on this list too. Maybe they weren't officially banned, but they were censored. Presidential candidate and billionaire Steve Forbes hosted that show, and the band had hung two upside down American flags from their amps in protest. SNL sent stagehands to remove the flags before they performed Bulls on Parade, and the band was asked to leave the studio without performing their second song, Bullet in the Head.

	ICole1987:	Apr 7th, 2011 at 09:11 GMT		2 points
	Tech Guy: "Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra? Come on people, somebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra. Possibly while high. Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your general direction." Cypress Hill Member: "Hey man, did we order a--an orchestra?" (Whispers pass around) "Uh, oh, yeah, yeah, we think we did."

	buntz:	Apr 11th, 2011 at 07:44 GMT		1 point
	@babybriggs21 Elvis Costello also performed after he was banned. Doesn't mean he wasn't ever banned, just like Chevy Chase. Nice try though.