Louis C.K. Sparks Uproar with SNL Monologue About Child Molesters (VIDEO) 
 
 I grew up on SNL. Huge Louis C.K. fan. I know they both push the line. I get that. But that opening monologue... — Bun B (@BunBTrillOG) May 17, 2015 
 
 If this monologue is any indication, Louis CK has lost some speed on his fastball. #SNL40Finale #SNL — Luke Epplin (@LukeEpplin) May 17, 2015 
 
 Saturday Night Live's season finale was this weekend, so that may have been one reason host Louis C.K. decided to push the boundaries in his show-opening monologue.Sunday morning, though, he may be having second thoughts.A wave of backlash to Louis C.K. 's monologue has spread across the Internet after the bit, which featured jokes about child molestation, among other topics like racism and the Israel-Palestine conflict.The Louie star compared the two Middle Eastern states to his children, before segueing into a bit about his own "mildly racist" attitudes (Example: Having two different reactions to a white man in a hoodie and a black man in a hoodie).But it was an extended riff on pedophilia that was probably the nadir of the monologue. The comedian eventually compared his love of Mounds bars (his favorite candy) to what he assumes sex is like for a child molester. People quickly took to social media to voice their disapproval.Louis C.K. at least acknowledged that he was aware of the controversy he was stirring up. "It's my last show probably," he said at one point, a fact seemingly confirmed by a promo during the show in which Kate McKinnon said it would be his final appearance ||||| Story highlights Louis C.K., no stranger to edgy comedy, didn't disappoint in "SNL" finale monologue 
 
 Social media were split on whether he went too far 
 
 (CNN) "Saturday Night Live's" 40th season went out with a bang, no doubt about it. 
 
 Host Louis C.K. is no stranger to edgy comedy -- as seen on his critically acclaimed FX series "Louie" -- and his nine-minute monologue shocked some on social media. 
 
 The comedian remarked on his experiences growing up in the 1970s, first pointing out that no one was offended by racist language at that time (and admitting to his "mild racism" today). Then he got a few groans from the audience once he started delving into the topic of child molesters. 
 
 He said that the child molester living down the street was not a big deal to most people at the time. 
 
 "Child molesters are very tenacious people," he noted, pointing out the fate of those who are caught doing it. He then made several references to the notion that molesting must "be amazing" if molesters are willing to risk getting caught over and over again. 
 
 Read More ||||| Holy moley. Oh, man. Louis C.K. launched the season finale of Saturday Night Live with a monologue that took no prisoners and is bound to go down in SNL history as either the most infamous one-night-stand in the 40-year-old franchise’s history — or right up there in the pantheon of incendiary, taboo-busting that includes Lenny Bruce, Sarah Silverman, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. Looking loose and at ease in stained black T-shirt and jeans, the comedian began jovially enough but quickly segued into a riff on Israel-Palestine, comparing the warring sides to his bickering children, then went on to acknowledging his “mildly racist” attitudes (along the lines of his different thought-responses to white-male-in-hoodie versus black-male-in-hoodie) and the clincher: A long bit about your friendly local neighborhood pedophile that was guaranteed to offend even the most divided among the viewers of the earlier material. At one point, he compared the joy of eating his favorite candy, Mounds bars, to what sex must be like for a child molester. 
 
 A promo during the local news lead-in to the show featured Kate McKinnon and Louis, in which she said that it would be his final appearance on the program, which seemed to take him by surprise. Was it a joke? Should it have been? Or did SNL once again this season (after Chris Rock’s memorable appearance last fall) hit the bulls-eye with scorched-earth satire you will never find anywhere else? Watch the clip and tell us what you thought. ||||| Advertisement 
 
 Oops! When Jay Pharaoh told website theGrio that producers “need to pay attention” and hire a black female cast member in 2013, he had no idea he was speaking to the press. “Literally, Jay didn’t know it was a reporter,” Lorne Michaels reveals. 
 
 Fans were shocked and saddened when beloved cast member Andy Samberg left the show in 2012. But stealing the spotlight on the long-running sketch comedy show wasn’t as fun for him as it was for viewers. “What it came down to is, I just couldn’t physically and emotionally do it anymore,” he confesses. 
 
 Advertisement 
 
 There was almost a world without “D*ck in a Box!” Writer and Andy Samberg collaborator Akiva Schaffer reveals the group was convinced the infamous Samberg and Justin Timberlake skit would flop. “The joke was crass and stupid,” he says. “We were not confident in the least.” But frequent host and musical guest Timberlake was much more positive. “I feel like he’s the only one who didn’t have doubts,” Schaffer adds. 
 
 When Darrell Hammond left the show after a record-breaking fourteen years in 2009, he was disappointed to find that the cast and crew didn’t plan a proper TV send-off. “When I did my last show, it wasn’t even acknowledged,” he reveals. “No one ever really consulted me, partially because I don’t know anything about how to put a show like that together.” When producers put out a DVD, The Best of Darrell Hammond, the star was similarly disappointed. “It really was the worst of Darrell Hammond,” he cracks. 
 
 Bill Hader’s beloved character Stefon has A-list fans! Paul McCartney once approached Hader and his wife Maggie Carey at a party and said his fashion designer daughter Stella had an assistant just like the anxiety-ridden man about town. “He put his hands over his mouth like Stefon, and my wife…went ‘Oh my God! Paul McCartney is doing your character to you,’” Hader recalls. “Robin Williams did the same thing….I was like, ‘Thank you very much; that’s bonkers.'” 
 
 Bill Hader loved working with 2009 host Taylor Swift. But Justin Bieber? Not so much. “I really didn’t enjoy having Justin Bieber around,” the former cast member admits of the troubled singer’s 2013 hosting gig. “He’s the only one who lived up to his reputation. I think that’s the only time I felt that way in eight years here.” 
 
 When show creator Lorne Michaels couldn’t decide if a 2007 “TV Funhouse” skit about racism and profiling was too offensive, he consulted a high-powered friend. “I showed it to [President Barack] Obama, because if he had any discomfort with it, I didn’t want it to appear,” Michaels says. “We went to one of the back dressing rooms and watched it. He said, ‘It’s funny, but no, I don’t think so,’ and I went, ‘Okay.’ So we took it off." 
 
 G Serious bromance! Andy Samberg reveals he and former head writer turned Late Night host Seth Meyers are “very, very good friends.” “Seth was the groomsman at my wedding,” says the funnyman, who married singer Joanna Newsom in 2013. 
 
 It is live television, so sometimes skits go awry. “I had a host accidently leave our sketch before it was over. The host left early by a minute and a half without even realizing it!” Nasim Pedrad recalls. “The sketch awkwardly faded to black in the middle of one of our lines, and the whole thing was a mess. My favorite part was the host sweetly came up to me during the good-byes and was like, ‘Hey, we did it!’ And I did not have the heart to tell him that we certainly did not.”
– Louis CK gave a predictably polite, sensitive monologue yesterday on the closing night of SNL's 40th season—making light of racism, child molestation, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. "Child molesters are very tenacious people," CNN quotes him as saying. "From their point of view, it must be amazing to risk so much!" He went on to describe himself as suffering from "mild racism," E! Online reports: "If I go to a pizza place I've never been to before and it's run by four black women, I'll go, 'Hmm,'" he said. And he compared himself to America while his daughters, always fighting, are like Israel and Palestine. The audience appeared shocked at times, while Twitter seems divided and some media critics (try Decider and Deadline) are a bit ruffled. "It's my last show probably," quipped the comic actor, People reports. (Click for 10 more SNL scandals.)