Their take on the good cop/bad cop routine on w/ Bob & David was maybe the funniest take on an age-old premise I’ve ever seen. Not many sketches get the ‘instant twist’ laugh of Odenkirk’s bad cop pausing and asking, “Wait, what? He said that?”

I think the Kids In The Hall reboot faired a lot better than With Bob and David. It felt more like a return to form. KITH was good on a sketch by sketch basis, but Mr. Show had to live up to the full episodes with linking format, and I think they really struggled for that reason.

That news definitely bummed me out.

As a big Tina Fey fan - I will give anything that she is associated with a go - I actually wouldn’t want her to take over as showrunner for SNL. It feels like it would be such a massive job that she’d not have time to do anything else and then we all lose. It’s not like she’d be writing the show. 

If you’re putting Beck on there, you gotta have Kyle Mooney. Those guys were a real oasis in the desert of the post-Hader SNL.

Or just boot Molly Shannon out completely since most of her SNL impact came in the 90s rather than the two seasons at the tail end of her run. Then there’s room for Bennett and Moynihan.  

The problem with Wiig’s sketches is that while she’s funny and versatile, they almost always boiled down to “hey, do this one silly thing over and over and over for five excruciating minutes.”

Cecily Strong’s Jeanine Pirro bit on WE where she drills Jost full in the face with a glass of wine over the shoulder from 10 feet away may be my favorite moment of the last 10 years. It was already so delightfully absurd but that stroke of luck (I bet she couldn’t do that again in 20 tries) put it over the top.

The authors are right about Samberg’s impact on how audiences interacted with SNL, and the Lonely Island digital shorts are all so delightfully unhinged that they stand up to some of the show’s all-time best filmed work.  He wasn’t great in sketches but that’s not what he was really there for.

Kristen Wiig was fine but I think Poehler, Rudolph, and especially Shannon were funnier and more versatile 

Ooh, I missed seeing Fallon included on here. I mentioned Beck Bennett earlier - yeah, I got way more laughs out of Bennett than I ever did from Fallon’s SNL days.

Will Forte should be higher and I’d fit Beck Bennett in there somewhere - I feel like in the last decade or so of SNL, he was the most underrated cast member. Get Moynihan outta there, maybe. Otherwise, pretty agreeable/predictable list.

I’m old enough that I saw the Matt Foley sketch with Applegate and Spade as it happened. And it was the best thing I’ve ever seen from SNL. This was also great but I will never get over everyone but Hartman breaking because Farley being 1000000000000000000% Farley.

Why did the robot need to replace her finger before stealing her organs?

It’s poetic justice how the closest thing Rob Schneider has to a comedy legacy is a parody of him made by more talented people.

Fat, dumb and so racist that Republicans say ‘Hey, maybe that’s a bit too racist!’ is no way to go through life, son.

His cameo probably took weeks to record. “Push the fucking button Clem Fandango!!!”

...crash course on who gets to eat who out in the Wasteland.

Honestly, I was hoping for more of the Darkplace DOCTOR LUCIEN SANCHEZ line readings from Berry, rather than What We Do In The Shadows. It fits better with the character.

The ‘chicken sexing snake oil salesman’s’ hair and general vibe had me spending so much time wondering ‘that’s not Tim Minchin, is it? Looks like Tim Minchin, but clearly it’s not . . . Who is that, if not Tim Minchin,’ that it totally eluded me that it was Jon Daly.