Yesterday was the day of remembrance of one of the most surreal music performance in TV story:35 years ago David Bowie usher the 1980sin Saturday Night Live . The producer censor a gay reference in the last of his three - strain stage set — but they missed him repeatedly showing a giant phallus at the end of it . [ NSFW - ish ]
Bowie ’s set for the show — which was hosted by actor Martin Sheen — start with his now classic The human beings Who Sold the World follow by TVC 15 . Everything was o.k. through those . It was kind of weird and out of the distinctive SNL act [ we can see these days ] , but there was nothing that a crusty person would find violative in one of the solid res publica . Then it come the last song : boy Keep swing .
seemingly , someone in the production thought that a verse was way too offensive for internal boob tube : “ When you ’re a boy , other boys check you out ! ” was not something you could say in turn - of - the-70s America because boys could n’t be sunny anywhere else outside New York , San Francisco , or Los Angeles , those ill-gotten pervert . Lyrics in hand , ready to press the censoring button , some manipulator quieten “ other boys look into you out . ”
Thus , the potential national crisis was averted . Until Bowie took out his giant prick . Not his cock but a giant plastic cock that total out of the pants of the puppet he was control in his green screen suit during his performance . He did n’t just took it out once or twice . He moved it up and down several time as the song reached its concluding orgasm . We do n’t know if it was a “ nookie you ” because he knew of the censoring beforehand or if he had be after it from the get-go . It does n’t count . It was hilarious all the same .
Unlike the gay reference point , the cock show off was not censored . I imagine that the control wholly missed it or , since they were n’t expect such a exhibit , they did n’t have time to nigrify out this part of the infection . Whatever it was , I ’m glad it survive . There are not enough penis in television — seriously , why the hell Game of Thrones is full of tits and ass but there are no phallus — or distaff genitals — in sight ? It ’s such an annoying , artificial strait-laced thing to do .
But I digress . Here ’s Bowie ’s January 5 , 1980 Saturday Night Live performance . Fast forward to the end of the last Sung dynasty to see the penis wave if you have to . I urge follow the total matter if you have the fourth dimension .
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