Does saying the F-word on live TV even matter anymore? Maybe not if you’re Kathy Griffin and expected to say outrageous things that will make Anderson Cooper look adorably abashed on CNN’s live New Year’s Eve special — because they both ignored it so smoothly. F-word? Live TV? Yawn. Happy New Year, everybody!

With a panel titled “Why ‘You’ Shouldn’t Post on YouTube” hosted at the Friars Club, you can’t blame us for expecting a roast to break out. But there were no acerbic send ups of YouTube’s inadequacies, and the back and forth did not follow that route. Instead, the discussion became a rebuttal of the panel’s premise. Why shouldn’t you post on YouTube?

In between all the search results for “SNL” on YouTube that consist of Jenny Slate dropping the F-bomb, there are a few other clips from other sketches, including the monologue from host Megan Fox and performances by musical guest U2. Alas, no results so far for the quite funny Transformers-inspired digital short (call it ‘D**k [...]

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Just like a two-word heckle from Joe Wilson can hijack a Presidential address to a joint session of Congress, so, too, can a momentary slip from an eager new SNL cast member distract from the 35th season premiere starring Megan Fox and U2 — especially when that slip is the F-word. Tonight new cast member Jenny Slate, in her SNL debut, played a biker chick who said “frickin’” a lot. Except at one point, she accidentally said that other thing.