Who Made NBC Cave?
UPDATE: NBC tells Nikke Finke, and confirms with us, that they took the clip down on their own: “Upon review, we caught certain elements in the sketch that didn’t meet our standards. We took it down and made some minor changes and it will be back online soon.” Specifically, NBC said it has edited out the chyron on-screen text, “People who should be shot” that appeared beneath the Sandler’ lookalikes, as well as the “allegations of corruption” made against the couple. Meanwhile, anything that gets yanked from NBC.com automatically gets yanked from Hulu. We expect both sites to have it up at the same time. ——————– Earlier: We have been praising NBC.com and Hulu for making it easy to get Web video clips of Saturday Night Live. But now there’s one clip NBC no longer wants us to watch anymore: Saturday’s sketch parodying the bailout bill. It’s vanished from both NBC.com and Hulu, the JV co-owned by NBC and Fox. What’s going on? Mashable has the details and a theory — NBC caved
