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A purple tropical shirt with a slick black suit, purple socks, and purple alligator shoes. A plaid suit with plenty of extra fabric around the ankles. A pajama-style shirt (or is it a blouse?) worn under a ‘70s-inspired shearling-and-leather jacket. These are clothes best left in the 1970s. But they're also a few of the outfits Sam Rockwell has worn to promote his latest film, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (playing a racist cop who's caused some serious consternation), over the last several months. On paper, these are highly questionable style choices. A little too loud, and a little too out-there, for a guy that, let's be real, doesn't have the height and youth of say, Russell Westbrook. In reality though, Rockwell pulls these clothes off exceptionally well.
It certainly helps that Rockwell's stylist, Michael Fisher, is known for dressing character actors and leading men with plenty of personality in bold clothes from daring menswear labels like Stella McCartney and SSS World Cup. Fisher's clients include stylish bros like Adam Driver, Dan Stevens, and Jonah Hill when he needs to go formal without losing his street cred. But Fisher also dresses guys with more classic tastes, like Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman. So we know that part of Rockwell's secret sauce is Sam Rockwell himself. The dude's off-kilter personality and ability to own his uniqueness with confidence are just as important as anything a stylist is going to pull—a useful lesson for dudes on and off red carpets.
The Twittersphere lit up Saturday night after Sam Rockwell accidentally dropped the F-bomb during a "Saturday Night Live" sketch.
In the eyebrow-raising sketch, guest host Rockwell plays a science teacher in a lab with a pair students.
One of the students, played by cast member Mikey Day, can't seem to grasp the task at hand, so Rockwell's character says to the boy, "You can't be this f------" stupid." Subsequent Mountain Time and Central Time airings were cleaned up.
Day never breaks out of character -- nor does Day or Cecily Strong, who plays the other student -- but Day does immediately cover his mouth after uttering the profanity.
A rep for "Saturday Night Live" declined to comment on the slip of the tongue. ABC has also sought comment from Rockwell's publcist.
Yow! Sam Rockwell just dropped the f-bomb live on @nbcsnl - on live coast to coast TV! pic.twitter.com/mHGWxN7jw7 — Brian Steinberg (@bristei) January 14, 2018
Rockwell isn't the only one to drop the F-bomb on "Saturday Night Live."
Guest host Kristen Stewart said the expletive last year. In 2012, guest host Samuel L. Jackson said both "f---" and "bull----." Cast member Jenny Slate also said the F-word during a sketch in 2009, her debut year. She was fired after the conclusion of the season.
Host for 'Saturday Night Live' on Jan. 13, Sam Rockwell. (Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images)
Sam Rockwell gets really, really excited about science.
While this weekend's Saturday Night Live host was conducting experiments as Mr. Science, with Cecily Strong and Mikey Day, the Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri actor got an F-bomb by the censors.
Disgruntled with Strong and Day's characters, Rockwell said, "You guys can't be this (expletive) stupid." Twitter users were quick to highlight the NSFW moment.
Though Rockwell isn't the first to slip up. When Kristen Stewart took a turn at hosting in February 2017 she also let the expletive slip by.
"OK, so we've got a great show," she said at the time, alongside cast members Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon, "and I totally care that I'm here 'cause it's the coolest (expletive) thing ever."
When Stewart realized her flub, she immediately put her hand over her mouth.
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Actor Sam Rockwell ensured his debut as host on “Saturday Night Live” was memorable by letting loose with an accidental and unexpected “f-bomb” – the first time such an incident has occurred since NBC began airing the program live across the nation , putting it on in primetime in some parts of the country.
Viewers in New York heard the epithet clearly in the first half hour of the January 13th broadcast, during a sketch in which Rockwell played a science teacher on a spoof of a PBS kids program. Cast members Cecily Strong and Mikey Day seemed surprised, but kept the action going. Some people watching the show in Los Angeles and Las Vegas reported on Twitter that NBC bleeped out the profanity, and Rick Ludwin, a former longtime head of NBC’s late-night programming, said on the social-media outlet that the network delays its west coast feed by a few seconds. NBC has broadcast “SNL” live across the nation since mid-Spring.
An “SNL” spokeswoman said producers declined to comment on the incident.
Rockwell’s utterance threatened to distract from a strong broadcast of the program that featured cameos from former cast members Bill Murray and Fred Armisen, as well as a strong opening sketch that made fun of MSNBC morning hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. And viewers heard other bits of profanity during the program: During “Weekend Update,” co-anchor Colin Jost repeated the word “s—hole” that has become an integral part of the recent news cycle after reports surfaced stating President Trump used the phrase to describe certain foreign countries. NBC bleeped out that word on the west coast as well.
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In an era when TV viewers routinely hear Samantha Bee utter all kinds of profanity on basic-cable’s TBS and listen to all sorts of once-offensive language on networks ranging from FX to HBO, who cares if someone drops a discouraging word on “SNL”? Simply put, the show airs on broadcast TV, and is held to a different standard by the Federal Communications Commission. What’s more, uttering profanity on the venerable series over its past four-plus decades on air has not often been rewarded.
In February, 1981, cast member Charles Rocket improvised a response to host Charlene Tilton that included the word “f–k,” and the incident that went down in infamy. Rocket was taken off the program. Featured player Jenny Slate inadvertently used a variation of that same word in her debut on the program in September of 2009. While she had a strong first year, and even established herself with a recurring character, she did not return to the program in its next season.
Both of those mishaps took place well after midnight. Last season, actress Kristen Stewart uttered the word in the midst of her monologue on a broadcast in February of last year. Norm MacDonald and Paul Shaffer are among others who have thrown the word out while on the air.
At least one person who swore on a live “SNL” telecast escaped punishment. In 1995, cast member Cheri Oteri uttered the word “s–t” while playing irascible character Rita DelVecchio. Host David Schwimmer called attention to the mistake during the episode’s farewell moments, and Oteri placed some money in a “swear jar.” All was forgiven. Oteri stayed with the program until 2000.
