That . . . makes it better? 

Yeah it’s weird he doesn’t have a rep as a diva. We think throwing a hissyfit because you don’t like the catered options on set as something a teenage instagram diva would do, never a middle-aged man with masculine-coded hobbies.

What, unlike the other members of the royal family and their spouses, who spent decades studying for a degree in Royalty?

I have to go to Red Lobster for a thing next week and I looked at the menu. It all looked so bad.

I don’t want to be conspiracy guy but huge star Will Smith couldn’t take a few days out of the movie that’s only being made because of his name? I feel like people didn’t want the hip hop tribute overshadowed by putting “Will Smith” and “awards show” in the same sentence. 

Did anyone notice that the fancam assembly sketch used the song “Big Boy Season” from the Keke Palmer episode?

Not saying she should. I just don’t get the reviewer saying that Aubrey brought herself to the parts, when (as is usually the case with hosts) the host never does and their parts could be played by anyone. The host usually not the star. 

It’s not great for Saturday Night LIVE that their prefilmed pieces are consistently the best things they do. 

I thought Molly’s first sketch, the filmed piece where she talks about killing Putin, was hilarious. This one was not. 

Especially this week everything felt like they had no idea how to end them. With the Game Night and the gay commercial sketch (the medication one not the Allison Williams one) they just cut to the exterior in what felt like a mistake. Even the ones that did have an ending, half the time it was just “celebrity cameo”. 

It was cool they got Biden to cameo. Has any sitting POTUS ever appeared on the show, even if it was a recording and not live?

In fairness to Mulaney, the series was total shit in ways I suspect were executive meddling that had nothing to do with him. I’m pretty sure the Martin Short and Elliott Gould parts weren’t part of the original idea, and if they just stuck to the “millennial Seinfeld” bits it would have been better.

I really don’t get why people keep saying that. She’s funny and talented but she seems very ordinary for a comic actress, to me. What’s weird about her?

Not sure that means anything. Plenty of comics fail to get on SNL, or have only one season no one remembers, and then have wildly successful comedy careers. 

Really? The characters she described sound right in SNL’s wheelhouse. Tell me you can’t see Cecily Strong or Kristen Wiig playing a reporter that acts sexy in inappropriate situations. Or Amy Poehler or Sarah Sherman playing a pill popping housewife who talks about what tails celebrities would have. Those sound very…

Doesn’t mean it was sexual though. HR handles people who are garden-variety annoying. And HR saying, “This is a place of business and your costars are kids, please don’t say stuff like that” isn’t a complaint in the MeToo sense. 

Not saying it’s mature. Not even defending Garlin. He sounds like a real nightmare to work with every day. I’m saying he didn’t do anything sexual or MeToo. He’s not a harasser, just a regular prick. 

Not even that. It wasn’t sexual. He was just a low-level asshole all the time and the rest of the show got sick of it. 

He got more money from The Goldbergs than anything he’s ever done, probably. He just hated working there. He’d trash the show on talk shows and in interviews. I don’t know why he couldn’t just show up a few hours a week and count his network tv money but apparently he couldn’t. 

I don’t think Jeff Garlin is a walking HR complaint. According to Wendi McLendon-Covey as quoted in the article, he didn’t want to be on the Goldbergs and made sure everyone knew. When he wants to be on the show he’s fine.