Bobby Bones (2:47)
So I don't get invited back to the finales. I don't get invited to even stand in the crowd awkwardly and clap in sequins like some of the people do. And some of my friends that have been on the show do get invited back. They haven't even won the show. I have been back two times and that was because I had a friend on the show. And that's because I called them and said, hey, I'm coming back. And so look, I get it just on this show specifically. And I do have the mirror ball. If you're watching this on YouTube right here beside me. Just so you know, I'm not lying. I was the greatest dance champion ever, But I was not a great dancer. I was a great vote getter. And maybe that messed up their whole system. In fact, it did because they changed the rules the season right after I left to make sure that good people wouldn't get kicked off the show. But I do feel a that I loved my time on the show. It was awesome. I do feel like I was the least difficult person to work with on the show. I think generally I'm a very easy person to work with. I mean, heck, on that show, I was gone half the time. I was either training in Nashville and the show shoots in LA and I would get back in time to do the show, or I was on the road on the weekends because the show shot on Monday and I would tour and do stand up Friday night and Saturday night and get back to Los Angeles. I mean, my partner, Sharna, Listen, I don't know why, but she wasn't even on the show for years after we won. I think this is the first year she finally gets to go back. So if you've ever been politely ghosted by ballroom dance, I know your pain. Because I do feel like I've been blackballed from Dancing with the Stars. But this episode isn't all about that. But it's kind of what inspired me to do this episode. So today we're diving into some of the other famous people who've been banned or booted or blackballed or just kicked out or however you want to describe it. Because if I'm going down, I'm going down with Elite Company. And let's start. I think I have 11 of these. It's a weird number. I have oddly numbered list all the time. At number 11, Sinead O'. Connor. The date was October 3, 1992. Sinead O'. Connor. Performed Bob Marley's War on Saturday Night Live. Now, that's not a song that I know super well. I know. Don't worry about a thing. I know that one. I know Three Little Birds. Is that the same song I was just singing? No. So she's performing, and it's an acapella performance. And at the end of her performance, she holds up a picture of Pope John Paul II and she rips it in half on live television. I was not watching when she did this, but I have seen the clip a bunch of times. In 1992, I was 12. I don't think I knew anything one about Bob Marley or really Sinead O'. Connor. And I think I was just now getting into snl. And also, if you didn't watch it live, you kind of didn't see it back then. It wasn't like now, where everything lives online. But she rips that picture in half and says, fight the real enemy. And what she was doing was protesting child abuse in the Catholic Church. This is years before the scandals that we know now were widely publicized. So NBC was crushed with complaints. Lorne Michaels banned her from returning to Saturday Night Live, and that pretty much derailed her US Career. Now, she was seen as being ahead of her time because years later, you know what happens? All that crap comes out about all those priests that were touching kids. Yeah, that's exactly what happened. Exactly what she was talking about. She rips the picture and says, no, let's not let this happen. But she was kicked off, and she ultimately lost her career because of it. I think you would know her from one song. Nothing compares to you. There's a. Actually a Prince song that she sang and made a massive hit, but that was it. She was kicked off SNL and basically didn't have a chance to be a pop star in America. Next up, and we can do SNL again is Martin Lawrence. 1994, he was hosting SNL. He goes off script in his monologue, and it's very graphic. And it was an extended rant about women's hygiene, specifically vaginal odor, you know, and in the 90s, I mean, even today on SNL, you'd be like, what's even happening there in the 90s? Even weirder, because nobody did that. NBC obviously freaked out. They cut the monologue from their reruns, and they put him on an unofficial blacklist, and he didn't return to the show for over 20 years. The incident became legendary because again, here's SNL again, telling somebody else, you can't come on. But it also felt like Martin Lawrence was testing how far he could go. And, yeah, he found the line. I've done that a few times where you're like, I wonder. And then you find the line real quick. Another time that I was kicked out of somewhere was, this is probably early 2000s. I went to Texas State University to speak to a class about radio and television broadcasting. And I went specifically into the radio class, and there's probably about 30 kids there. And they were all asking questions. And I remember saying to them, hey, look, if you're in college just to study radio, you're wasting your time. Like, either get started working for real. Like, if this is what you want to do, get started working for real, because you don't need college. But if you're in college, that's great. I didn't, you know, I didn't know anybody. None of my family went to college. I wanted to be the first person to graduate college. And if you're in college for that reason, that's awesome. But find a different thing to get your degree in. So I go and I give this speech. And I felt like I was pretty real with them. I was like, if you're studying radio, don't study radio. Get that in the real world. But if you want to stay in college, learn something else that can be something you can fall back on. About a week later, I got a letter in the mail, the actual physical mail sent to the radio station saying I was never invited back to speak at Texas State University. Pretty much Martin Lawrence and the vaginal odor. That's very similar things there. Elvis Presley was censored on the Ed Sullivan Show. Elvis performed in 1956. You've probably seen the clips. CBS refused to show him from the waist down because his hips was basically sex on black and white television. Vulgar. That's what they said. Like the TV Guide. Remember when that was a thing? But Ed Sullivan had said he was not going to book Elvis at all. But he did want the ratings. And so Elvis comes on dances, they don't show below his hips. He comes on again. They're like, dude, you got to chill out a little bit. He doesn't chill out. They're like, we're never going to invite him back. But the ratings, like I said, have been going up and up. So they had him back, and they showed full body. And the thing about censoring somebody is once people find out somebody's being censored, they really want to see what's being kept from them. So once they showed Elvis in full body. Like, part of his appeal was, we're not supposed to see this. And he kept doing it. And that's kind of what we know Elvis for. If you were doing an impression, it involves a lot of hip gyration. Well, and lip like this. This is not a good example of me doing the lip, but that kind of. That looks like I'm having a seizure. The visual. Amazing. Madonna was banned from the Vatican. In 1989, Madonna released Like a Prayer, which showed her kissing a saint, dancing in front of burning crosses, and basically challenging a lot of Catholic imagery. The Vatican condemned it immediately, which again, once they did that, it just made it bigger. I think that's something you're also going to see is that once people publicly say, yep, that's true, we no longer allow you or we no longer want you to do A, B, C or D, then whatever they're not wanted to do actually becomes bigger and more meaningful. Her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour, she had that. And Pope John Paul II called for a boycott of her concerts in Italy, accusing her of satanic behavior. And you know, what Madonna did, she just did more because she knew all the press it was bringing to her shows. And so that kind of made her into the massive pop star that she was. Yep, you gotta have talent. Yep. The timing's gotta be right, but also if the right people push against you and you push back, you're even bigger because of it. And so you saw that happen to Madonna, and she's one of the biggest pop stars in the history of, you know, American pop music. We can talk about Pete Rose, who forever was banned from the Baseball hall of Fame. Now this is a bit different because he now is not banned from the hall of Fame. He's not in yet, but once he died, he's now allowed to be in. So he's baseball's all time hits leader. 4,256 hits. He was banned for life in 1989 because there was an investigation into him betting on games while being a manager of a team. That team was Cincinnati Reds. And he said he never bet against his team because that'd be cheating. Right. Because if you bet against your team, you can actually make decisions to make your team lose. Therefore you would make more money. But because you're a manager and you're betting and you obviously have insider information, even if you're betting on your team to win or you're betting on other teams, once he admitted to the gambling, they were like, you're out, you're done. So he has admitted he's signed a bunch of balls. I'm sorry, I bet on baseball. He lobbied for reinstatement. Very divisive figure. While he was alive and forever, the hall of Fame refused to consider him. But just even a few weeks ago, they have now said now that he's died, he can be up for the Baseball hall of Fame, which is kind of crazy. Like, if you're going to let him be, I don't know, can you, like, deathbed him? Like a special rule where if someone's dying and it's close, you, like, throw them in real quick. But, yeah, he'll never get to see that. That's crazy. Tonya Harding was banned for life from US figure skating. Now we'll go back to the 90s for this one. In 1994, Tonya Harding's ex husband, Jeff Gillooly, and her bodyguard, they attacked Nancy Kerrigan. Nancy Kerrigan was her skating rival. They were both from the United States. They were both going to go to the Olympics. And they later did go to the Olympics. Nancy Kerrigan did. I believe Kerrigan ended up bronzing. But they popped Nancy Kerrigan in the leg. They clubbed her in the knee with, like, a stick. So she was unable to compete. And like the US Championship, one of the US Ones. So Tonya Harding denied knowing in advance that it was happening, but evidence showed that she knew after. But she was never found guilty of being a part of actually planning or clubbing Nancy Kerrigan in the knee. Which, by the way, if you've never seen, I think it's I. Tonya with Margot Robbie. You should watch that. It's awesome. Like, Margot Robbie kind of kills it. I think Tonya Harding did Dancing with the Stars, too. Justice for Tonya Harding. Now, I don't know about justice, but she pled guilty to hindering prosecution. She was banned for life by the US Figure Skating Association. No Olympics. I do think, though, that Nancy Kerrigan bronzed Brandon, will you look that up for me? See if Nancy Kerrigan medaled in that. Tonya Harding was all over the tabloids. And then I. Tonya was nominated for an Oscar way later on Ron Artest. If we're staying in the athletic world, he was suspended 86 games. Now, he wasn't kicked out of anything for life or black ball, but this is a massive suspension. If we go back to 2004, the malice at the palace, there's a documentary on Netflix. You should watch that if you don't remember the game. And we probably weren't watching the game live as it happened because you're talking about just a regular NBA regular season game. And so this happens as Pacers and Pistons and there are people, they're fighting the fans. It is unbelievable. Like when this is over or pause this, go look at the clips of Malice in the Palace. So a fan threw a drink at Ron Artest as it was going down and he charges into the stands. I'm talking about swinging hard. Players are fighting. Players are fighting. Fans, fans are throwing stuff. Ron Artest was suspended for the rest of the season. 86 games, the longest suspension for an on court incident. It changed league policies. Security increased, still has increased. Alcohol sales were reduced. Like there's a cutoff point. And that was to a time when NBA image control became a priority. Dude, it's crazy to look back at. And now they've also done documentaries with the players talking about that night. And they're all. They all get along now, pretty much. Brandon, what do you see? She won silver seven weeks after the attack. Nancy Kerrigan won silver seven weeks. Hey, better than bronze by one. And there's your fact of the night. The silver is better than bronze by one. Let's take a quick pause for a message from our sponsor.
