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Saturday Night Live<\/a> is under fire after a sketch poking fun at the racial slur incident from last Sunday\u2019s (February 22) BAFTA ceremony. During the awards ceremony, Scottish campaigner John Davidson<\/a>, who has Tourette\u2019s syndrome, involuntarily shouted the N-word at actors Michael B. Jordan<\/a> and Delroy Lindo<\/a> while they were on stage. Davidson<\/a>, whose life inspired the film I Swear<\/a>, has said he was \u201cupset\u201d and \u201cdistraught\u201d over the involuntary tic that made him shout the offensive slur. SNL<\/a> mocked the moment on in a recent sketch where controversial celebrities, such as Mel Gibson<\/a>, J.K. Rowling<\/a>, Bill Cosby<\/a>, and Kanye West<\/a>, blamed their problematic behaviour on Tourette\u2019s. \u201cI\u2019m Mel Gibson,…<\/div>\n

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Saturday Night Live is under fire after a sketch poking fun at the racial slur incident from last Sunday\u2019s (February 22) BAFTA ceremony. During the awards ceremony, Scottish campaigner John Davidson, who has Tourette\u2019s syndrome, involuntarily shouted the N-word at actors Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo while they were on stage. Davidson, whose life […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2308541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2308540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018SNL-Slammed-Over-\u2018Staggeringly-Offensive-Tourettes-Sketch.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308542,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308540\/revisions\/2308542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2308541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}