After Actress Dies, ‘SNL’ Skit Disappears
  • A “Saturday Night Live” sketch that satirized the actress Brittany Murphy, below, has been pulled from Internet sites like hulu.com, provoking disagreements among viewers about whether the video should remain on the Web, and whether “SNL” should have performed the skit at all.

    In a segment that appeared on the Dec. 5 episode of the show, Seth Meyers, anchor of the mock news segment “Weekend Update” and its head writer, noted reports that Ms. Murphy had recently been fired from a film project called “The Caller.” He was soon joined at the “Weekend Update” desk by his cast mate Abby Elliott, who was impersonating Ms. Murphy. The fictional Ms. Murphy seemed to be disoriented and still under the impression that she was on an episode that Ms. Murphy hosted in 2002.

    Though video of the sketch was posted on hulu.com soon after the show was broadcast, it disappeared from the site after Ms. Murphy died on Sunday. A news media representative for “Saturday Night Live” declined to comment.