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Bowen Yang feels very bleeping strongly that ‘SNL’ should be able to use profanity for comic effect

  • Saturday Night Live cast member Bowen Yang recently discussed using profanity on the show.
  • He feels comedy is hampered by the inability to use certain words.
  • Speaking on his podcast Las Culturistas this week, Yang argued for an FCC exception.
  • Yang feels certain words are "comedically powerful as words."
  • Yang is not aware that the FCC took action after an unplanned April 6 profanity incident.
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Bowen Yang feels very bleeping strongly that ‘SNL’ should be able to use profanity for comic effect

Bowen Yang is pleading his case for why he thinks he and his “Saturday Night Live” castmates should be able to use profanity on the sketch show.

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Entertainment Weekly broke the news in United States on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
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