Conspiracy theorist / wrestling enthusiast / hardcore tea drinker, thank you very much.

Damn, that Tom Hanks episode was a classic. Multiple things that ended up in best of compilations over the years, from the Bush-Dukakis debate to the Change Bank ad to the All-Drug Olympics (which they didn’t show last night!). The best part, though: Jan Hooks was wearing a blue stripey dress in a game show sketch,…

Yeah, Cecily’s been in Vancouver the entire season shooting an Apple+ thing, Aidy appears to have left to shoot Shrill, and I think there are exactly two episodes remaining of Kate’s SNL tenure. I wonder what’ll happen with Kenan and Chris Redd, both of whom are going to be on the Kenan Show, which starts filming in…

Kenan, Aidy, and (I think) Kate are all gone for at least a while after the election to film other stuff. Cecily is gone now; she got green-screened in.

Cecily Strong, who plays Melania, is in Vancouver filming a show, so she had to be green-screened in for her one small appearance.

Bill Burr hosting the second show of the season sounds to me like SNL is having trouble getting hosts.

Music rights. Most of the missing sketches have at least one musical cue that they never got streaming rights to.

This isn’t going to be a 20-person cast by the end of the season. It’s not even technically a 20-person cast now, because Cecily Strong isn’t in the studio: she’s in Vancouver shooting an Apple show. Kenan and Aidy are both leaving after the election to shoot their own shows (Chris Redd is on Kenan’s show too), and…

SNL has never handled incumbents well in presidential election years (except Gerald Ford, but they were new then). What do you remember most about debate sketches? Lovitz’ Dukakis vs. Carvey’s Bush, Hammond-as-Gore talking about the “lockbox” while Ferrell’s Bush discusses strategery, etc. Once they’ve been doing a…

That’s what was on Seeso, and only the sketches in the Seeso package were available individually on the SNL app, when they had that.

They’re also increasingly waiting around for funding to make crazy high-concept videos. The last three singles from their most recent album came out between 2 and 3 years after the album release and were financed by a Russian airline, Morton Salt, and a paper company.

OKGo’s first record is very good, but they didn’t start making the elaborate videos until the second and (especially) the third. They’ve been spending way more time on the video concepts than the actual music for at least a decade.

It’s primarily on CBS stations, though in my market it’s been dumped over to the CW.

Lorne says in that interview that Kate will be on at least through the election episodes, but is vague whether she’s staying past that. After this first run of eps, Kenan and Aidy both leave to shoot their respective TV shows. Cecily Strong is already in Vancouver filming something, and will be green-screened in (I…

They need Maya the week they do the VP debate sketch, and maybe one other time right before the election. I doubt Harris is going to make so much news that Maya will have to be on every week Palin-in-2008-style.

Seven people in the Flaming Lips these days, huh?

Give it two months... I bet it shows up on NBC by Thanksgiving. They just can’t tell people that, or they won’t pay for Peacock.

Their marriage suffered a “fame inversion.” He was the schlubby sitcom guy and she did movies when they got together, and by the time they divorced, the roles had flip-flopped.

Her character’s been poorly served for a long time, in part because she and Jaime Pressley are younger than the other characters (the Jill character seems to fit better with the others than Christy does, though)

They’ve brought the son’s father back a couple of times with no mention of the son, though that actor’s busy with Bob Hearts Abishola now. Sara Rue hasn’t been on in a while, though.