I guess, I just didn’t read the sketch as something we were meant to take as representative of reality. Maybe I underthought it.

Very much doubt that the click hungry union busting corporate overlords are asking the writers what shows they really really want to cover.  We all serve the holy algorithm my dude. 

Come over to The Avocado sometime. Lots of former AVC commenters there.

Those sketches are SNL creating its own mythology. I’m not saying I enjoy them but it seems to work and if nothing else trotting the celebrities out will always get applause. Plus they seem to get tons of entertainment media coverage before and after whenever they do the 5-timer club episodes.

I thought the first one was, with Tom Hanks, and all the celebrity reveals were surprises. The group photo with this kills that instantly. Tom Hanks: “Wow! Mr. Martin!” Steve Martin: “Please. Call me Mr. STEVE Martin” still makes me laugh.

1) Cold open: As good as they could have done. Better choice than comedy.

Except for the actual best sketch (though Monkey Judge was not bad) being the dog food one (and Blue River is fictional, so not product placement), I generally agree.

As a person with Ukrainian origins, who lives just a few hundred kilometers away from the border with Ukraine (and whose hometown is just ~50km away from it), I thought the cold open was overall tasteful. While I agree that SNL’s format may not be well-suited for more serious moments (I still remember Kate’s…

I didn’t say anyone was comparing Mulaney to proven abusers (although c’mon, it’s the internet, you know I could find someone). I’m explaining that a drug problem and divorce don’t affect the elements of the “persona” -- really just his jokes -- that I enjoy and giving an example of someone whose actions did rise to…

Why do I fear they’ll wheel Tom Hanks out there?

The John Mulaney Headless Horseman sketch from the last time he hosted, has got to be one of the most unfunny SNL sketches of all-time.  No joke.

Maybe he just shows up for the monologue already wearing it, shuts down the whole skit and then proceeds to the snarky, smarmy 12-year-old in a grown man’s body part of the show.

That’s partially what Roger Rabbit was, so it will all be in the execution.

So it’s ‘Hey, remember your early 90's childhood: The Movie’ and instead of just remaking a fun adventure show with new episodes we get...this.

Ew. Just.... just.... Ew.

The whole selling point for the show with people seems to be that it isn’t “cool” - many of these think pieces revolve around how if you watch Succession and don’t watch Yellowstone, you are an out of touch liberal who needs to find God (in so many words). The funny part is that when I went to look at some of the fan…

If you spell out Betty on a telephone it adds up to 30, and White is 28, which equals 58. The fifth letter of the alphabet is E and the eighth one is H. Reverse that and you’ve got the initials for Herb Edelman, who played Stan on the Golden Girls. Edelman appeared on 17 episodes of St. Elsewhere.

Cursed Child is an awesome show. Like, even if you hate the paradox plot they did an astounding job with the immersiveness of the magic. Seriously delightful surprising stuff. No idea if any of that is lost in the abridged version they’re showing now. But if you liked the world of Harry Potter at all, I think the show…

Why would they though? Of all the bad things a celebrity can do, known alcohol and drug problems, which he’s always been open about, leading him to cheat on his wife and get another woman pregnant, really isn’t bad by celebrity standards. That’s a cliche with famous people, that they cheat.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure most of today’s audience is just too young to have the needed cultural references to connect to it. Granted, those references were still relatively fresh when the bit first ran a couple of decades ago.