A resurfaced unaired clip shows “Saturday Night Live” mastermind Lorne Michaels reacting to Ashlee Simpson’s infamous 2004 lip-sync debacle — and you might be surprised by what he had to say.

Nearly 20 years after Ashlee Simpson’s infamous lip-sync snafu on Saturday Night Live, we’re getting a better picture of how Lorne Michaels reacted to the public blowback in 2004.

Ashlee Simpson, 2004 Look, the media is rough on young, female pop performers, ready to tear them down as inauthentic or inexperienced or insufficiently talented at any moment. Hell, this list of ...

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Ashlee Simpson 's infamous lip-sync incident shocked Saturday Night Live audiences in 2004, but one person was surprisingly unbothered by it: show creator Lorne Michaels.

And I think in this case, it was much more 'what just happened,' which is, I think, what everybody else felt." Dana Edelson/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Ashlee Simpson on 'SNL' on Oct. 23, 2004 ...

"I think accidents happen. I think that's the nature of live television," Michaels can be heard telling "60 Minutes" journalist Lesley Stahl in the clip. Ashlee Simpson 's infamous lip-sync incident ...