Kattan and Oteri both wrote their own material, which meant they had a much better chance of getting stuff on than, say, Breuer. Also, there was a point where it looked like Kattan could transition to movies. Somebody bankrolled Corky Romano.

That actually makes sense, as I believe Carvey was a friend and semi-protege of Robin Williams in the San Francisco stand-up scene.

One very under-reported aspect of SNL's history is how much Fey's
generation of writers and performers thumbed their noses at the original
generation. It's well-known that Fey, Meyers, and others hated Al
Franken. I was watching Norm MacDonald's podcast where he interviewed Bill Hader, and he mentioned that Adam McKay…

Franken was still submitting sketches deep into the 2000s. When Fey was on Seth Meyers a while back, they joked about some of the terrible ones Franken would send in. Apparently the Fart Doctor sketches on 30 Rock were based on an actual idea Franken kept submitting.

Honestly, I loved Take Me Home Tonight, which was his passion project.

And apparently Viacom and CBS are now separate entities, though owned by the same guy, which means the Colbert Report can't really cross-pollinate to the CBS show, which boggles the mind.

I was hoping they'd do a Trump special (featuring sketches with Trump impersonations going back to the '80s, plus maybe a couple of things from Trump's two hosting gigs) and a Clinton special (same), but c'est la vie.
Think about it though: Hartman doing Trump! Hooks doing Clinton! Hammond doing Trump! Poehler doing…

The obvious answer for Better With You's failure was that it starred noted show-killer Josh Cooke, whose resume as a series lead includes Committed (one season), Four Kings (one season), Big Day (one season), and Better With You (one season).* If anyone ever greenlit a show starring Josh Cooke and Kyle Bornheimer as…

Well, that dude is a whole lot weirder than I expected…

Sounds a bit like Get Up Kids circa On a Wire, which is a-ok by me.

Seriously, who is Bella Thorne's agent? Does she have one? Can we stage an intervention?

The guy who hosted the Sunday late-night "indie" radio show in my town (not Phoenix) was a big Jimmy Eat World fan in the late '90s and was playing that demo of Sweetness as early as late '99 / early '00. I'd love to see it get released in an official form someday.

This ep was really peak Meadows. When the guy gets a chance, he can really bring it.

Dude is 35, he might get a little more wrinkly, but he's basically locked into that look.

Worst Week was noted show-killer Kyle Bornheimer's first series lead
role. Since then, he's had Perfect Couples (one season), Romantically
Challenged (six-episode summer burnoff), Family Tools (one season, summer burnoff), and Angel from Hell (one season).
And to think it all started when he couldn't hold Two and a…

OK, rank the SNL memoirs!

Well, now you have to share at least some of that stuff.

Is Miranda the first-ever host who's primarily known for Broadway? Streisand never hosted, nor Chenoweth, Menzel, Lupone, etc. etc. I guess Nathan Lane, although he's done more in films than Miranda has.

Just to be pedantic, Miranda couldn't possibly have waited up late to see Laraine Newman, given that he was born the year Newman left the show.

I think that sketch was the tipping point for me for "the female cast members star in a music video" pre-taped sketches, which go back to, I think, "Do it on my twin bed." They've all got the exact same format: funny stuff mixed with everybody on a giant soundstage singing to the camera, everyone takes their own…