"as ever, the SNL audience doesn’t really know who Williams is (he’s just not in the average SNL viewer’s zeitgeist)"

No kidding. Whenever Wiig or Hader or Poehler stops by we have to endure their tired old "greatest hits" charcters, despite the fact that they are talented performers that can just invent something new.

I thought it was a great episode, that made me laugh out loud more than once (that never happens when I watch SNL, now). What Would It Take was hilarious.

After giving the world Robin Thicke, I think being a serial killer might actually polish his reputation.

But we have five grandpas already!

What put a lot of people off was the camera work, I think. To this day people who don't enjoy the show complain about the camera shaking or being out of focus.

I believe that famous people have a debt to everyone.

Pharoah is great. Weird thing about his Obama, though: seem like a white guy in blackface. Kinda ashy, too.

Change it to Schicklgruber.

I think in the sixties it was pretty striking, but yes, by the eighties and nineties it was not really my thing either.

I'm constantly astounded by what they put on the air. Just when I think that whatever I'm watching is as batshit-crazy as it gets, they actually top themselves. Even stuff that I have a hard time finding funny, I just can't look away from, like Xavier: Renegade Angel.

Actually, their comedy skirts quite close to horror on many occasions. Can't wait to see them go right to it.

Correct; actually you could do a "Hey, it's 2002 mocking the 90's" in nearly every episode of Clone High.

You know, that would have been an inspired decision.

I kind of expected to see the Seinfeld game on here; I just tripped over it in my garage. I didn't think anything Seifeld-related could be so crappy, but there you are.

Ponderosa pine!

Watching Basic Instinct with your grandparents is not fun.

I watched that one. I love Norm more than Jesus, but Brand made him sit back and listen, Norm knew he was no match for him.

He is underrated as a writer, actually. Read his obit of Margaret Thatcher (too lazy to provide link, but think it was for the Guardian).

It's what Paris Hilton did. She now earns royalties from her video ONE NIGHT IN PARIS.