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Web TV Channel Slaps 'SNL' With Cease-and-Desist Order

Filed in archive Internet TV by martino on January 11, 2007

Gibson is our anti-Semite. Go find your own.



We have all read endlessly about broadcast networks initiating legal proceedings against web sites who are hosting their content online. But how about the reverse? Stashwax, an online comedy channel on YouTube, has accused NBC's Saturday Night Live of copyright infringement. They have even sent a cease-and-desist order to the program's executive producer, Lorne Michaels.

The order demands that SNL end all visibility of its short video skit "SNL Apocalypto Re-Cut," which Stashwax argues that the SNL Apocalypto parody, which aired Dec. 9, bears a striking resemblance to a skit Stashwax posted on YouTube in August, which uses footage from "Braveheart" to make similar jokes.

In addition, both clips use Mel's notorious anti-Semiticlinks tirade that followed his Malibu arrest for drunk driving. And I love this: in a statement, Lloyd Grenache, President of Stashwax, said to NBC: "Stay off our gags, Michaels. Gibson is our anti-Semite. Go find your own."

I doubt this one has legs because the general concept of altering a film trailer for comic material is fairly common. Here is another Apocalypto skip by National Lampoon Spin Cycle:



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