Seriously, here's the cast from 2003-2004 (including featured players)— parenthetical is the year they left SNL:

Seriously, here's the cast from 2003-2004 (including featured players)— parenthetical is the year they left SNL:

Yes, Lorne is an essentially conservative factor in all this, but there's a major difference between the experimentation of Seth Meyer's writers' room, as opposed to Tina Fey's or Adam McKay's.

Yes, Lorne is an essentially conservative factor in all this, but there's a major difference between the experimentation of Seth Meyer's writers' room, as opposed to Tina Fey's or Adam McKay's.

So, wait, we're stuck with Seth Meyers and Kenan Thompson for another season?

So, wait, we're stuck with Seth Meyers and Kenan Thompson for another season?

He also did a "Guy in a bear costume" sketch that had apparently been kicking around for years. They finally gave him the chance to run with it on his last show.

He also did a "Guy in a bear costume" sketch that had apparently been kicking around for years. They finally gave him the chance to run with it on his last show.

I just can't get over the DV video. Everything looks like a razor-blade.

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The golden age of radio was long before my time, but it’s hard for me to imagine that Inner Sanctum orThe Shadow could have skeeved out an audience more effectively."

It's basically the same meta-joke as "Out of Breath Jogger from 1982": that we expect people from the past to recognize their own quaintness.

No, that was just hokey meta-humor.

It's kind of odd that they were claiming stuff like the United Way sketches as "Digital Shorts," and not the proto-Digital Shorts. That is, "A Short Film by Adam McKay."

CORRECTION: it wasn't quite as well-paced as Darlique & Barney, the lounge singer act from the Jon Hamm episode.

The only thing I cared for was Broadway Sizzle… but oh, god, that was probably the best sketch since the NASA/potato chips one.

Hmm. I'll have to disagree— "My Ding-a-ling" is an abomination, and by far the worst thing Chuck Berry ever did.

It's a hitchhiking song, not a trucker song.

It was Chuck Berry's only #1 hit.

But pop used to be so good! (Roughly up until 1971.) The Billboard Top 40 used to be a meritocracy; now it's a meritocracy in reverse.

You're absolutely right. Good transitions work subconsciously. Bad transitions are readily apparent.