Maybe I'm misremembering but it seems to me that back when Tim Robbins once hosted Saturday Night Live, the monologue bit went like this: Robbins began criticizing the parent company of NBC, General Electric, and suddenly he was cut off and an announcer proclaimed that Saturday Night Live would never be seen again. Something like that. (I think it turned out to be a nightmare. Lorne Michaels woke up in bed with Phil Hartman…)
If this account is true — and I don't know for sure that it is — then a very similar thing not only happened for real on The Today Show recently but actually happened to Tim Robbins.