You guys is jerks, you all are nerds
You guys are nothing but a bunch of stupid birds
Looks like we're winning, and you lose
You'll sing "The Boogïe Beagle Blues"

To me, Best Original Song hit two significant lows over the course of the few years. In 2009, when we got the end credits song from Wall E (easily, the worst part of an amazing movie) and two songs from Slumdog Millioniare, when Bruce Springsteen's title song for Aranofsky's The Wrestler wasn't even nominated (I can't…

SNL started as a variety show. It maintains that with the musical guests. It skews funny, because variety shows of the 60s and 70s skewed funny, but it didn't strictly start as pure comedy. "Love is a Dream" is a remnant of that sensibility.