“My first instinct, without having seen anything, was that we probably shouldn’t do that. My thought was that even though it’s going on the Internet, it’s still representing NBC. But I hadn’t seen it yet. So I said it would depend on how dirty it was.”
—-Rick Ludwin, the NBC executive responsible for late-night programming, explaining his decision to approve to putting an uncensored version of a SNL skit featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg on YouTube, where it was viewed by 2 million people over the course of a week, speaking in a story in the NYTimes.
“My first instinct, without having seen anything, was that we probably shouldn’t do that. My thought was that even though it’s going on the Internet, it’s still representing NBC. But I hadn’t seen it yet. So I said it would depend on how dirty it was.”
—-Rick Ludwin, the NBC executive responsible for late-night programming, explaining his decision to approve to putting an uncensored version of a SNL skit featuring Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg on YouTube, where it was viewed by 2 million people over the course of a week, speaking in a story in the NYTimes.