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25 lip 2019 · The true story of how John Belushi's favorite punk band FEAR got themselves banned for life from Saturday Night Live in 1981.
On Halloween night 1981, a punk rock legend is born. Bill was there(and be sure to check out our other P&T videos).
11 paź 2024 · FEAR Gets Banned From SNL. This is the story of how FEAR got banned from SNL on Halloween in 1981! Kids moshed, adults freaks, punk got banned! ...more.
20 gru 2018 · Raheem Abdul Muhammed tells why black people like to go to horror movies — Not even the audience is laughing anymore at the “falling logo letters” gag that’s opened every SNL Newsbreak so far. — Brian’s the only anchor shown at the desk tonight. He explains that Mary is on assignment in the field.
31 paź 2021 · Now, a new short documentary made as part of the series Punk & Tomatoes hearkens back to the band’s infamous performance. It features host Bill MacKenzie talking about his memories of the event, along with footage and images recorded there.
“Fear on SNL,” above, includes several interview clips from firsthand witnesses. DC “punk superfan” Bill MacKenzie listens to an old interview he gave about the show, in which he says the band asked him to come to the taping.
Like many of their peers, Fear rose to prominence when Penelope Spheeris featured them in her 1981 punk documentary The Decline of Western Civilization, Part I. But before that seminal film’s release, Fear was discovered by John Belushi, who first caught the band on a local L.A. music show called New Wave Theatre ...
