Editing Cunt (section)

====United States====
The first scripted use on US television was on the ''[[Larry Sanders Show]]'' in 1992, and a notable use occurred in ''[[Sex and the City]]''.<ref name="Silverton" /> In the US, an episode of the [[NBC]] TV show ''[[30 Rock]]'', titled "[[The C Word (30 Rock)|The C Word]]", centered around a subordinate calling protagonist [[Liz Lemon]] ([[Tina Fey]]) a "cunt" and her subsequent efforts to regain her staff's favour.<ref>{{cite web|title=30 Rock - Season 1, Episode 14: The "C" Word - TV.com|url=http://www.tv.com/shows/30-rock/the-c-word-892404/|access-date=13 July 2020|archive-date=28 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628184930/http://www.tv.com/shows/30-rock/the-c-word-892404/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Characters in the popular TV series ''[[The Sopranos]]'' often used the term.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The essential Sopranos reader|url=https://archive.org/details/essentialsoprano00lave|url-access=limited|last=Lavery|first=David|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|others=Lavery, David, 1949-, Howard, Douglas L., 1966-, Levinson, Paul.|year=2011|isbn=978-0-8131-3014-9|location=Lexington, KY|pages=[https://archive.org/details/essentialsoprano00lave/page/n105 93]–104|oclc=739713784}}</ref> [[Jane Fonda]] uttered the word on a live airing of the ''[[Today (NBC program)|Today Show]]'', a network broadcast-TV news program, in 2008 when being interviewed by co-host [[Meredith Vieira]] about ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/15/fonda_slip/|title=Jane Fonda c-word slip shocks US |website=[[The Register]] |access-date=6 March 2008}}</ref>  Coincidentally, nearly two years later in 2010, also on the ''Today Show'', Vieira interviewed a thirteen-year-old girl said the word twice to describe the contents of [[Text messaging|text messages]] she was privy to that were central to a well publicised and violent assault.  Meredith gently cautioned the girl to choose her words more carefully. As this was a live broadcast on the East Coast, the slurs already were already broadcast, but the producers removed the audio for the Central, Mountain, and Pacific feeds as well as online.  Like the Fonda incident, Vieira issued an apology later in the show.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 June 2010 |title=WATCH: 13-Year-Old Girl Says 'C-Word' Twice On 'Today' Show |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kayla-manson-13-year-old_n_607266 |access-date=14 June 2023 |website=HuffPost |language=en}}</ref>  Media Critic Thomas Francis commented on what he perceived to be hypocrisy in the media industry:

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|text= Isn't it interesting how the national media licks its chops over this story, delighting in every gory detail, only to caution a 13-year-old girl to be "careful about our language"? <br/> <br/>
Why should she be careful, Meredith? Because there are 13-year-old girls in the audience? There's so much violence and vulgarity in modern American culture, words like ''cunt'' are like so many deck chairs on the ''Titanic''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Francis |first=Thomas |title=Kids Say the Damnedest Things: 13-Year-Old Deerfield Student Drops C-Word on Today Show |url=https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/kids-say-the-damnedest-things-13-year-old-deerfield-student-drops-c-word-on-today-show-6455155 |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=New Times Broward-Palm Beach |language=en}}</ref>
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In 2018, Canadian comedian [[Samantha Bee]] had to apologise after calling [[Ivanka Trump]], a [[White House]] official and the daughter of US President [[Donald Trump]], a "feckless cunt".<ref name="Mahdawi">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/01/samantha-bee-ivanka-trump-c-word-america|title=Samantha Bee proves there's still one word you can't say in America|last=Mahdawi|first=Arwa|date=1 June 2018|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=2 June 2018}}</ref>