📺 Tim Robbins · Sinéad O'Connor

Saturday, October 3, 1992 All day

Saturday Night Live · season 18, episode 328 · Saturday, October 3, 1992 Host: Tim Robbins. Musical guest: Sinéad O'Connor. • Credited Third Category Featured Players: Al Franken, Robert Smigel • Sinéad O'Connor performs "Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" and the Bob Marley song "War". • After four minutes of a capella during O'Connor's second song, "War", she exclaims "child abuse" several times and then holds up a picture of Pope John Paul II, and says, "Fight the real enemy," tearing the picture to pieces. During the earlier rehearsal taping, O'Connor held up a picture of a starving African child before leaving the stage. Director Dave Wilson gave the order to not light up the audience applause light following "War," as he felt she had "railroaded" the crew and producers. The segment, which aired nearly a decade before the world became fully aware of the prolific sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, marked one of only a few times that a sketch or performance ended with a quiet studio. NBC received 4,484 complaints about O'Connor, and 725 calls supporting her. • Susan Sarandon appears during the goodnights. Wiki link

📺 Tim Robbins · Sinéad O'Connor