Fair enough. Instead of Patton, Gabriel Iglesias? Sara Schaefer?

Chappelle is famous as the host of a sketch show, more than a pure standup. Like past hosts Amy Schumer or Sarah Silverman. Mulaney is a former SNL writer and that’s its own category. Last pure standup was Bill Burr.

Given how Schur tends to operate, I’m guessing either source material is a very very loose jumping-off point and the tv show would have had Negro League players and AAGPBL players and been about a diverse cast learning from each other and trying to do good. 

I was thinking about Mom. Maybe Chuck Lorre had the power to get such an a premise greenlit but 2015 Mulaney didn’t. Mom is also a show that wasn’t shy about changing premises when the original one didn’t work. Imagine if Mulaney could dump Martin Short, Elliott Gould and Zach Pearlman the way Mom dumped the kids and…

How did you read it? Is it online?

Felt bad for Ana de Armas. Every sketch except the recording studio one, where she was funny, was just her standing there. They treated her like she was an athlete or singer.

It’s the third time. First with Margot Robbie, second with Jennifer Lopez. This version was by far the worst. And they gave the host nothing to do.

How can you tell? They’re barely ever on. 

It was a weird era. Post the Sandler-Farley guys and before Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Will Ferrell was the only real breakout star. Molly Shannon was considered one of the big draws when she was on and was probably the most popular woman. 

The bad standup comic Jeannie Darcy was one of Molly’s characters when she was a cast member. I’m glad they only alluded to Mary Katherine Gallagher a few times rather than build a whole sketch around her.

Does anyone else think PPD does the same sketch almost every week? I don’t get their vibe. I liked the cold open though. They shouldn’t be afraid to mix up the format and not have every open be politics.

All anyone wants to know is if Will Smith is presenting Best Actress. 

Why would it ever be cancelled? It’s cheap to make and has the most Emmys of any show. And if it weren’t on most stations would just run infomercials.

The five timer sketch is by far the least funny thing SNL does but if they insist on committing to the bit, keep it in the goodnights like they did tonight or for Melissa McCarthy. Don’t blow a whole cameofest like John Mulaney got.

Oh Trump is absolutely going to run and it’s taking forever for him to get indicted so he probably won’t be in jail. 

And apparently they had Spade plat Perot in the long shots. He was pissed. 

My guess is JAJ does Biden and some other cast member does Trump. It won’t be a celebrity unless both guys are played by celebrities. Or Biden is played by the celebrity.

I didn’t hear any anti-vax stuff. What was it?

It’s been Zombie Goldbergs for 2 seasons now if not four. 

When did he leave?