For musical guest, my money’s on Paul Simon. Significant hearing loss apparently makes performing hard for him, but he’s deeply tied into the show’s history, having hosted multiple times and appeared as the musical guest more than a dozen times, including in the show’s post-9/11 episode.

I don’t think Chung is lazy or in any way worthy of criticism. If she wants to stay home to care for young kids, or just for the hell of it, and she has the financial ability to do so, more power to her. But I think the writers at this site tend to be pretty overwrought. And the fact that Chung had to do a one-day…

I’m sure they would too. But the only original cast members who became truly famous were Radner, Belushi, Aykroyd, and Chase. Two of them are dead, Chase is a has-been and notorious jerk, and Aykroyd hasn’t done anything noteworthy in decades.

For someone who wants a conversation to stop, you sure have a funny way of showing it.

I think ideally, you’d want someone who (a) was a cast member; (b) early in the show; (c) had a successful career that is in some way attributable to SNL; and (d) went on to have a successful career so that he or she is still famous enough to host SNL now.

Look, you suggested you weren’t interesting in trying to convince me you were right, so I posted to say I was fine not having the discussion anymore. Now you’re reengaging.

To be clear, there are other ways to get health insurance in America, including Obamacare. I don’t think the system is perfect, but it’s crazy to say that we live in a dystopia because Jamie Chung had to work a single day in a year on Succession to keep health insurance through her union.

One weird part of Lovecraft Country, which didn’t bode well for its future, was that the show got better the less it focused on the main characters and central plot. The episodes that put Wunmi Mosaku and Jamie Chung front and center were both highlights.

It’s a discussion thread. You made a statement on the thread that I didn’t think made sense, and I pressed you a bit on it.  If you’re not interested in engaging with me, that’s fine. None of this matters.

I think we tend to root for characters who are proactive, and don’t always care much about the morality what they’re doing. Walter White blowing up his foe with a pipe bomb hidden in an old man’s wheelchair is fun and satisfying. Skylar White being horrified that her husband murdered a man at a nursing home is . . .…

If you haven’t worked in a year, not because you can’t, but because you “turned a lot of things down,” then you don’t get job benefits.  This is not evidence that we’re living in a dystopia.

If you’re going to be angry at a celebrity for getting a cushy life due to good looks, then that applies to most of Hollywood. When Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell were cast in Anyone But You, it wasn’t because they were objectively the best actors available.

Concluding that Spears should not have been in a conservatorship for 20 years was perfectly reasonable, and a good reason to feel sympathy for Spears.  I’m not sure why so many people have jumped from that to aggressively asserting that Spears is an amazing hero, who never engaged in any behavior that was worrisome or…

Right. And even before that, we knew Timberlake hadn’t done anything Jackson wasn’t expecting at the performance itself, and Timberlake wasn’t the one criticizing Jackson.  He was only ever very tangentially connected to any blame for what happened.

Seems like a good choice. Alcock did a very good job in House of the Dragon, and her lighter presence was definitely missed when Emma D’Arcy took over. I think D’Arcy also did a good job with heavier material, and it’s definitely consistent with the story that her character would be more grim. But one thing House of…

The evidence that Timberlake is a jerk has always seemed pretty thin.  It seems to have a lot less to do with Timberlake’s actual behavior, and more to do with the fact that we need more villains for our fantasy story about living saint Britney Spears.

“Her truth” is also a particularly obnoxious phrase. Either Spears’ statements about Timberlake are the truth, or they’re not. She does bot have a truth that belongs just to her.  And whenever authors use phrases like “her truth,” they seem to be deliberately trying to brush past the possibility that something someone…

True, but this reads like an effort to fend off litigation by Timberlake. I suspect that Timberlake has threatened her with a defamation suit now that he’s suffering identifiable career harm as a result of Spears’ accusations.

You’re wrong. If anything, it’s not positive ENOUGH about Spears. The fact that Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists worship deities other than Spears is a travesty. We are but worms, unfit to gaze upon her. The movie Crossroads should have won all the awards, not just in the year it came out, but in every year since…

Reading between the lines, Spears’ lawyer got a letter from Timberlake’s lawyer over the weekend.