There’s genuine concern about children’s safety that supports those who work with children being carefully monitored and well trained. Then there’s pearl clutching “won’t someone please think of the children!” moral panic hysteria.

I think using qualifiers such as “First Timer” and “Non-Actor Athlete” he did very well in the taped segments. In the live sketches he was no Barkley or Manning but as a supporting actor was lively, tried his best and not stiff (I agree about wooden man-toy Jason). I appreciate they saw his strengths and wrote with…

It’s weird how Travis Kelce is so comfortable yelling “You jabroni!” and ripping WWE-style interviews in front of 50,000 fans on live TV, but gets on that stage in that tiny studio and the lights seems so much brighter. But for the most part he never seemed uncomfortable. Definitely in the top tier of athletes hosting.

“one of its best episodes of the season.”

That was such a damn fun episode. I’ll admit that I was a little bit worried during the opening monologue, not because it was bad, but because you could see Kelce is doesn’t have a natural relaxation in front of the camera. But the show did a fantastic job in building around that and make it work.

absolutely - and the skit where he talked about having sex with that dude’s wife...is Andre Dismukes having sex with anybody’s wife a believable construct?

him being such a dork really made me want to see him and jon hamm as bumbling detectives.

Falling Down was hilarious to me. It’s such a specific piece of life that rang really authentic to me. Stop seeing me fall down!

Agree, and I think it’s review cheating to make the host the MVP.  

Sarah Sherman. From her early videos sketches, etc., weird stuff involving the body has been her thing and she’s worked a few into some SNL sketches.

I found this episode light on humor, and I’m generally an easy grader on SNL. The Falling Down sketch had me in absolute stitches (“Stop seeing me fall down, Andrew Dismukes!!), but that was the only thing that got a big laugh out of me. The forehead sketch was closest. The rest was pretty meh. The cold open was only…

Where the Please Don’t Destroy boys at to save the day?

I’m pretty sure that the info box data is grabbed directly from IMDb, which often lists long-departed cast members from shows that have a lot of seasons under their belt near the top of the entry, rather than sorting into “current” and “former” as e.g. Wikipedia usually does. It’s one of the many ways the info box is…

That opening roller coaster sketch?

It’s unbelievable 

I’m a big fan of Jordan. But even he couldn’t save last night’s dreary episode. Best sketch was “pretapped” - Jake from State Farm. Beyond that, it was all lousy.

Can we stop with the old “good host / bad writing” saw? Jordan was fine. He was game, but he wasn’t great. That’s about all you want from a host, but to say he stabilized or anchored anything is not a useful or accurate piece of criticism.

Why does the info box list Don Pardo as “Self-Announcer?” Pardo’s been dead for almost a decade, and Hammond has been the full-time announcer ever since.

In an unexpected twist, this SNL really made me want to see Michael B Jordan as a horror movie villain. Like Killmonger was already an all-time great Marvel villain, but there’s another more unsettling performance there.