I'm usually willing to give SNL musical acts benefit of the doubt. Doing live sound is incredibly difficult. A live performance can only be as good as the guy running the monitor mixer. Most people don't realize just how crucial this job is. Mixing live to the audience is child's play, they just want to hear all of…

Yeah she said something like "Don't say the last part" a bit hushed.

also, there is much more material missing in what I suspect to be the original "live" airing. Right before she says "Krambus" it jump cuts to "block of fig paste." There's a good ten seconds gone. The version on NBC.com saved more of the Krambus joke, but there is still missing material.

I made an account to get in this discussion, I usually lurk. Did anyone else notice that McKinnon's Merkel routine was cut/edited? I've seen two versions, the one I saw first was sloppily cut, like a delayed-broadcast last minute pull. The version on NBC is still cut, just a little more cleanly. East/west coast…