For realism, yes, Joan Rivers was the ceiling. Granted, 99.9% of today’s comedians would kill for Joan Rivers’ relative level of fame and success.

Is Stephanie Hsu out? She was keeping Joel interesting. 

Proving that Will slapping him was right. If it was “just a joke”, he would double down on it and keep expanding on it. He knew he fucked up, and got slapped for it.

So I did some jokes about him. That’s how it is. She starts it, I finish it. OK? That’s what happened. Nobody’s picking on this bitch. She started this shit. Nobody was picking on her. She said me, a grown-ass man, should quit his job because her husband didn’t get nominated. And then [he] gives me a concussion.…

Jfc take your meds and stop commenting.

With a track record of voter suppression; denying abortion rights; demonizing people on public assistance; starting a war on drugs while taking bribes from Big Pharma and spreading opioids; anti-LGBTQ enforecement; anti-CRT; refusing to enact health care for all, refusing to ban guns, converting park land into oil…

Is it me, or did we get way too much Andrew Dismukes in this episode? Is he a writer or something?

being a 65 year old who has seen a zillion SNL episodes since the inception...this might be one of the worst.

This sounds like a better episode than the one we got (and a better review, quite frankly).

That opening roller coaster sketch?

I’m turning 40 this year so please forgive me if my opinion here makes me sounds like an old fogey, but is “Lil Baby” the worst name in rap history? Like, you get to choose any name you want and you go for...Lil Baby?

Checks out:

Even without pants, Rooty Bear is still less disturbing than Gritty.

“Also, everyone knows polar bears are true Americans. Woke culture would have you believe it’s OK for your daughter to date a grizzlie bear! Listen, I’m not against any species but we all know brown and black bears rummage through more trash cans than any other Freedom Bear and live off of government park lands…

Call me crazy, but I’m not really sure the kind of folks who are throwing a fit over the new M&M’s are going to be placated by making Maya Rudolph their spokesperson. Consider it a hunch.

The infamous “have you tried acting?” quote immediately sprang to mind. 

I believe Mescal’s Frank is getting out of the army in the final act, so I don’t think Mescal being in his mid-20s is too far off.

“I can’t think of a better place to spend the next 20 years than in the world of a Sondheim musical.”