The show is just so ridiculously funny and absurd that I am glad that it gets to continue regardless of where it might be. 

Does this mean it had already been cancelled by Peacock and they just hadn't announced it? 

Fun fact! No Peacock scripted original has been given three seasons yet. 

Pfft, there’s no such thing as Santa Claus.

What a crappy time to be alive. 

Same. I’ve read horror stories about the crazy hours and stress involved in making SNL, and even if the comedy were good, it wouldn’t be worth it, but the comedy is mostly shit, which really makes you wonder why they bother.

There was an article in the NYT a couple of months ago about how the theater world is now finally talking about and working its way away from this “you’ve gotta pay your dues” rational for justifying doing at least eight shows a week, subjecting your voice and entire body to the extreme demands of “the job”, and never…

I wonder how many people who worked there were truly extroverted (if truly extroverted is even a meaningful term). I know some of the people I’ve found funniest over the years (like Bill Hader and Chris Farley) dealt with a great deal of shyness and self-doubt. 

SNL seems like a great work environment for extroverted assholes 

If you ever hear Conan O Brien (or even Bill Hader) talk about working on SNL, it sounds really brutal. Conan specifically has said repeatedly that he has a love hate relationship with it, as the work itself he’s very proud of and he had a lot of fun, but that he was constantly near panic and the pace of the show…

Yeah, and his indie/weirder movies were fully his choice; I’m sure he could have gotten work in more mainstream stuff, but that’s just not what he wanted to do at the time. He’s never not been relevant and working.

“The former child star is coming off of something of a career renaissance”

A masterpiece.

What a shock that a genre designed to appeal to teenagers makes their adult characters be basically perpetual teenagers.

Ow, my heart. These specials were much anticipated year markers throughout my childhood and beyond.

Not to mention that the elf wanting to be a dentist despite the disapproval of his peers has been interpreted as a coming out metaphor by some.

Regarding his point of view on characters in big movies, I can’t agree with him on this, because it’s a matter of perspective. I enjoyed Terminator not because of any family dynamic, because I just wanted to see machine fight and blow shit up. Same deal with Aliens. If anything I wasn’t a fan of the family dynamic…

Ask me to rate my favorite animators, and I’m rankin Bass pretty high on the list. 

Yeah. Those specials were formative to generations of Weird Kids. “So you’ve got big ears or a weird nose, or some disability that the other kids tease you for? Kid, you’re going to save Christmas!”

He’s not wrong that the animators need reference footage, mocap, etc. to create realistic underwater sequences. But couldn’t he just have easily hired professional divers with similar body types instead of requiring the main cast to learn how to hold their breath for extended periods?