I'm don't mind playing it safe, I'll laugh at Modern Family but even in the worst periods of SNL Weekend Update has the potential for sharp, smart comedy. Norm Mcdonald, Tina Fey,Dennis Miller (he was legit amazing before 9/11). When your weekend update hosts BEGINS his tenure as host with a heartfelt sentiment of…

HA!, yeah you're right on both accounts. Not only did he run out of paint but Catherine O'Hara was at the SNL Offices in talks to join SNL and seeing O'Donoghue screaming and vandalizing the walls scared her off. So he unknowingly scared off a potentially amazing cast member

Well I went to film school at a private school in LA, and there were a lot of minorities around. Obviously its not that unusual to have your close inner circle of friends be all white, but you would at least have some minority friends hanging around your larger social circle. NY is even more diverse than LA, all these…

You a type of lawyer or something, someone important or something

You Know what really gets me, there's a certain group in the media/internet culture that want to put people like Dunham and Mindy Kaling on a pedestal, and frankly their a little too self involved and their comedy is too specific and its only funny to a certain type of audience. Meanwhile Maria Bamford is quietly…

"Lefty Blogs holding her singularly accountable for minority characters on tv" Umm for people her age, who live in New York and work in the arts, You'd have to be actively avoiding minorities to not cross path with some people of color in those circles. So its not unfair criticism to question why her show is fucking…

kate Mckinnion tho

Lena Dunham? The National? Sketches about Men's Rights and Katt Williams? Most viewers would agree that this was episode of specific, niche references. But somewhere in Brooklyn there's a gay black teen who thought that was the greatest SNL ever.

Whats up with overrated New York writers like Dunham and Woody Allen and their obsession with intellectuals or fake intellectuals, I mean this subject is like half of Woody Allens work. I'm from the west coast so I imagine New York as being people standing by a book case, drinking wine and discussing the New Yorker,…

Men's music rights

I like O'brien he's made me laugh a few times, like the bird bible from last week or that sketch where he interviewed bugs

Well if you're a bland, non offensive looking white dude you can definitely get hired by this show just look at colin jost

He has that fake Tom Cruise laugh that drives me nuts. Like he thinks everything IS SO HILLARIOUS!!

Yeah Matt Beringer has aged alot in like a year, I finally get why all those music critics call it the National "dad rock". but to be fair , those are some cool as shit dads

My issue was that the sketch was literally just them talking about men's rights activists in a non humorous manner. I mean Jesus Christ men's rights groups are such an easy target, I mean throw a fedora joke in there or something. it shouldn't be that hard to get some comedy out of that group.

in 1985 when he was rehired to SNL along with Lorne Michaels, Legendary Writer Michael O Donoghue spray painted the word DANGER on the wall of the writers room because he thought that was what the show was missing. If O' Donoghue saw the show now he'd probably just burn the building down. I know its a new cast and…

Hey Brah, just so that we're clear here, I'm not a mens rights activist,I just thought that sketch was terrible

Yeah, Lena Dunham is the Justin Bieber for the Internet writers and tv critics. They defend any criticism of Dunham by saying " Youre Just a hater"! but they do it in a wordier, slightly more intelligent way.

I was very offended by the Jewelry Party sketch because, I am a member of a Men's rights group, Men's rights to funny comedy sketches

I have nothing to add, I just hope if enough people comment about WHM every week, Av Club will come to their senses and start covering it