Dafoe is screamingly funny in The Life Aquatic, and also he’s having a blast in Shadow of the Vampire. And if I were a writer for SNL, I would have done something like that, where they catch up with Max Schreck, vampire actor, today in a mockumentary interview segment. But it would have to be filmed, because I feel…

There was just so much less content even 10 years ago, it has to be hard to assign finite recapping writing talent to an infinite content universe. I think SNL gets recaps because everyone knows what SNL is.

I didn’t think he dragged the last sketch either, I just thought it wasn’t quite in his range compared to a few others. On the one hand I think sketches that are poorly put together and just there to show the whole  cast aren’t the best idea, but on the other hand, it’s also the main way we are going to see most of…

How many hosts would you describe as not “game”? I’ve seen every show for the last decade-plus and very rarely has that been the problem to me.

This sounds like it was written by someone who never saw Auto Focus.

Or...maybe he’s doing exactly what he said he would do in his resignation statement - finishing up his current assignments with his TV editor Danette Chavez which should stretch until her departure on March 2

Katie, Aidy, and Cecily need to move on. They’ve starred in other shows! Pete Davidson too. He doesn’t feel as over it as the others but it’s getting there. Kyle Mooney has run his one joke into the ground and he’s also currently starring on another show. And I feel sorry for Melissa, but the show doesn’t need her and…

I’m sure some SNL obsessives have Takes about this, but it feels like the plan is to keep the core cast intact until Season 50. But I think it needs a full teardown ASAP. (I guess they can keep Chris Redd.) I’m not even watching it live this year for the first time in literally decades, and the main reason is that I’m…

But in the past Kate would be on her own failing in her film career, she wouldn’t be continuing to take up space on SNL. Dana Carvey didn’t come crawling back after Master of Disguise tanked

I was hoping for anything Dafoe related (Spiderman, Wes Anderson (like maybe something similar when Ed Norton hosted years back), Hell, a Platoon (though dated) spoof could have been interesting), and what we got was bland and dull. I’ve been waiting for a Nugenix satire, only b/c I see those commercials all the time,…

aidy definitely had buzz for a few years and shrill was well received, but that kind of speaks to my point that their careers feel held back by snl. they don’t get to really do those next steps and they pass them by while they’re still on the show.

I feel like that chair-through-window sketch would have worked if Dafoe had been the boss, and then went full bruised-ego, refuse-to-take-responsibility after his attempt to join in the fun went horribly awry. Like, if his response was to scream at the room, not be sheepish and apologetic.

Is it Lorne’s strategy to have so many cast members that the the intro takes up the entire length of the show? Will SNL be the first show to have a commercial break during its opening credits? 

it was really brutal huh? 

Exactly.  For a show looking for easy wins, you would think they would have made an effort to fit this in.  Disappointing.

Peyton Manning loving Emily in Paris was the best thing SNL has done for a long time.

God that opening sketch sucked. How did their political sketches get worse?

Anyone else surprised Kenan didn't break out his David Ortiz on the occasion of his election to the Hall of Fame?

I thought Willem Dafoe was fine. I didn’t really get the idea that he was a dramatic actor incapable of comedy - the one time I could see this was in the final sketch, which I liked, but where he was sort of put into a Walken role when that probably isn’t his style. To me he was genuinely very funny in the Nugenix…

I can see the similarity, more down to how much ITYSL material this past season was in an office setting, but that type of absurdist material is much older than anything Tim has done. SNL was doing office sketches in the ‘90s that someone might say were like ITYSL. I also wouldn’t say they wasted Tim - he was happy to…