Comedy isn't about being "funny." It's about being Important. You're probably one of those people who doesn't watch Studio 60 every Friday.

Fair enough. I generally find this new ritual of "someone new just became famous! Let's find out every single thing they've ever said and done that could be construed as offensive" to be unsavory. You know that as soon as the news came out about SNL picking her up, someone started scraping her Twitter feed.

Or she was making a joke. Like comedians sometimes do.

I don't think that's how SNL saw it, but I always found that reasoning hilarious (SNL needs a black woman…who will play Michelle Obama?). As if a) Michelle Obama's personality was just begging to be satirized in sketch comedy and b) this came after eight years of Laura Bush never (or hardly ever) appearing in anything.

Yeah…given the low expectations her presence on the show created, it was somewhat better than I thought it would be, but not necessarily great overall. I could see her showing up as the straight woman in a comedy, where the underplaying can be used better than on SNL.

"Red, White & Blaine" it is.

Good catch. Lorne Michaels has made it clear that he does not want any sketches written for the audience of minorities who were unable to vote.

It was only soft-pedaled compared to the way that liberals wanted the show to treat him, which would have been for the cast to just scream "YOU'RE A RACIST" in his face for 90 minutes (forgoing commercial breaks and Sia's two performances).

" ..especially after [Trump] hosted the show (and Update was neutered for the night)"

You're much better-informed about the actual musical theater influences than me, but the parallels between the two sketches seemed pretty clear to me.

Perkins must not be a fan of Gary "Delabate" (as he spelled it).

The "Frazier" theme song sketch at the end had to have been a spiritual sequel to "Deborah's Time" from late 2015's Chris…Hemsworth-hosted episode.

Tell that to Dennis Perkins.

How? Perkins went on and on about how Trump hosting cost SNL all of its political relevance. In the 18-odd months since he hosted, SNL has been more politically relevant than it's been since at least the Sarah Palin sketches.

"it’s a swipe at lazy self-satisfied activism from people who, most likely, agree with the sentiments involved"

My Ranking:

Yeah…that's a fair point. Didn't remember off the top of my head that she said that.

Not quite following. Assuming they're the same age, he'd have to have impregnated them both around the same time, and presumably he knew Celeste for at least a decent amount of time, even if they weren't married, before he got her pregnant. Jane he only knew for one night, obviously.

Honestly…loved watching the show, but not in love with the last episode. The possibility of Perry being the one who raped Jane was obviously being discussed (on here and elsewhere), but to me the idea that he would never have been looked at anyone but Celeste almost would have made him more interesting…that his desire…

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but…didn't Jane say she spent a whole night, first at a bar, with the man who raped her? I never understood why she thought someone who looked completely unlike Perry (the interior designer she tried to sniff) might have been the guy, or why she was having so much trouble placing…