Who was asking for Dave Chapelle or Shane Gillis?

Nimrata herself.

I worked with her team on a project a few years back and I can anecdotally confirm that your first point is true. I did not work with her personally but with her manager and mother, and there were definite vibes of “fuck it she can’t do anything right.” They were insanely protective of her in a way I felt wasn’t…

Honest question to Lorne: Who is asking for Nicky Fucking Haley to be on SNL? 

I don’t know who Shane Gillis is but you just described my brother-in-law to a “T”. Voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 “because Bernie wasn’t allowed to run for president.” My view of the guy has never recovered. 

I’m surprised and heartened by people not knowing who this guy is.

“Since then, Gillis has continued to work steadily as a comedian”

I almost always recognize the host of SNL when they are announced, but I have no idea who Shane Gillis is. A few YouTube clips later and still not getting why he would be invited to host the show.  

Are they really this desperate for hosts?

Call me old fashioned, but I remember when they used to hire famous and/or talented people to host SNL.

The law explicitly says that you can’t escape fire in a crowded theater.

“Burning to death feels good in a place like this.”

If I want to burn to death inside a locked theater, by God, that’s my right as an American!

There’s that stupid US nanny state driving up the cost of doing business again. Damn Government regulation!

I guess Brazil has different fire codes than the US. Every theater I’ve been to has an emergency exit to the side of the screen.

I'm sure your detailed descriptions of the music you like are super duper interesting 

Slaps is what people say when they don’t really have much interesting to say about music, isn’t it?

I always found it engaging and sound enough. I’ve gone back and rewatched seasons from the mid-1990s and you have huge chunks of the back-half of the show devoted to presenting tangled complicated legal issues (arguing to the NY Supreme Court, etc) that would never happen on network TV today.

I love original Law & Order and it’s been painful to witness how bad the resurrected production has been. I couldn’t watch it. The original often played loose with jurisprudence, but still attempted to take a deep dive into legal quandaries. And even though the show mostly ignored personal melodrama, each character…

Jesus Christ, how miserable must Barsanti be to approach all his articles in such a butthurt way?!?!