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The NBC show offers timely and topical sketches from the Studio 8H stage every week, but sometimes in the rush to showtime on Saturday night, the producers, writers, and cast members don’t give questionable ideas a second thought. Other times, however, it’s not their fault; it’s the hosts and musical guests that land the show in scandal.