I thought the Jon Bass character was there for that purpose. He asked a few too many questions about her skin and whether it could be pierced with vibranium, IIRC.

Needs more Pug!

Is Pratt being eyed for the brother, the robot, or the drifter? Inquiring minds want to know!

I mean, isn’t all this a LITTLE silly? Was anyone that surprised to see Maguire and Garfield when they heard that Willem Dafoe and Alfred Molina were in it? Or was the plan to literally reveal nothing about the plot of the movie?

Is the actor not doing press because Peter Berg started sleeping with Harry Styles? Because I feel like that would get a lot of attention.

Yes, but: if her character is a key part of future Marvel movies (particularly the two Avengers films), she’ll be employed deep into this decade whether this movie tanks or not.

How extended is it? What’s the new Betty Brant stuff?

I read this and thought, “huh, Aries Spears is still around?” But it appears the answer is not now, and not in the future, either.

Uh... there was the Owen Wilson impression, the Dolly Parton impression, one or two Weekend Update bits, the “not good at role-playing in bed” sketch, maybe that talk show sketch with Selena Gomez in May... I’m having trouble coming up with much more than that.

I wonder if she was promised a season like Kristen Wiig or Kate MacKinnon used to get, where she can basically play whoever she wants and be in whatever sketch she wants.

Melissa Villasenor wasn’t a shock, given how vocal she was about not getting airtime last summer. Maybe she made enough money off those JC Penney commercials that she feels comfortable moving on. Alex Moffat is a funny guy, but he seems destined to play generic 4th lead in a few movies, then do a sitcom that flops.

Felt like the writing was on the wall for him when his best character, Angelo, kept showing up in the “cut for time” sketches on YouTube. I’m not sure the guy appeared in a live sketch the last month of the season.

Matthew McConaughey / Dixie Chicks, Season 28, episode 11: February 8, 2003. You don’t have to believe us, but if you first say “I don’t remember this” and then say you aren’t willing to invest time to go back and look, why do you care enough to comment?

I read a lot of SNL memoirs. Schneider’s never done one, and he wasn’t interviewed in the Shales and Miller oral history, but the stories other people tell about him are fascinating. He used a jeweler’s loupe to examine his sushi before he’d pay the delivery guy. He so pissed off famous nice guy Phil Hartman that Phil…

That’s because McKinnon legitimately worships Ellen, was allowed to be “friends” with Ellen because of the impression, and would never do anything to jeopardize that by lampooning Ellen’s travails the last couple of years.

Go on Peacock and watch the episodes around the first time Matthew McConaughey hosted. It’s definitely there.

Yeah, but that’s parody. I’m not sure this Pooh thing is.

Odd that we haven’t heard any reports of Jeff Garlin behaving horribly on movie sets or while filming Curb. It’s almost as if he was trying to get out of his long-term contract to take advantage of better options and didn’t care how he did it.

I would be really interested to see polling data on how many people a) are aware of Rowling’s comments and b) have changed their opinion of her and the Harry Potter franchise as a whole. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s way more people than I’m expecting, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s way fewer.

Yes. I can’t imagine a quicker way to get Congress to agree to extend copyrights indefinitely than to start turning beloved children’s characters into evil psychopaths.