The fact that you can inure yourself to reading about "____ children killed..." as a part of being an American - not stop being appalled, but become accustomed - is only awful.

I could watch docs like this on many of the show's other hall-of-fame writers - Jack Handey, Rosie Shuster, Paula Pell, etc. - but...I'm replying to a post about an SNL Nerds episode, OF COURSE I would watch more docs about comedy writers!

A doc focusing on one of the greatest and most influential #SNL writers, author of some segments I return to to laugh myself stupid A LOT, full of appreciation and kinship from those he's influenced? There was no way I wouldn't love this.

What if I told you that the "10-to-1" really SHOULD be referred to as the "5-to-1," given when it tends to actually air? What if I told you that the "10/5-to-1" almost never ACTUALLY airs at 10/5-to-1 and is reeeeally more about the spirit than the timeslot?

#SNL

Where are my POST-eminent folks at?

The fuck...?

I give up?

I'm so glad the version of "What If I Told You...?" that I watched on YouTube the other day still had Colman Domingo's flub in it - I hope that version's still there, because it's just a fun goof that doesn't undermine the thing.

That was a thought I had, out of bummed desperation, about...oof, almost 2 years ago. But yes, there aren't so many folks with the status of Ferrell circa 2001-2002.

I hd...

To the former: about half a season, yeah. To the latter: Yeah, and my recalling that too had me thinking, "Well,
Troast was a friend of PDD going in, maybe they'll persuade Lorne to bring her back, a la Ferrell with Parnell," but...seems uuuuunlikely.

Fine, this is "a regional thing" or whatever, but...

"Vs." is pronounced "VERSUS," not "VERSE."

Next time, my symposium on "mirror."

There's a part of me wondering if this'll wind up like the Paul W.S. Anderson draft (AND SPOILER FOR THAT INCOMING IF YOU HAVEN'T LISTENED), with the debut feature being the against-all-odds #1. Far-fetched, but...THIS debut feature's gotten further than I'd have imagined, and the thought amuses me.

So you're saying we're about to be living in BABY GENIUSES 2?

Fine, Jon Voight, you win.

SPACEBALLS: THE NEW ONE is a very Brooksian title - and very much a spoof-movie title - but...yeah, OF COURSE there's a part of me that would've liked it to actually be subtitled THE SEARCH FOR MORE MONEY. I'm only human!

"Some Guy You Had To Look Up on IMDb's The Mummy"

I sure did have to do exactly that yesterday.

Well, a lot of Deeply Online People made "iconic" perhaps the LEAST interesting or reasonable thing you could call something, so...kudos on that.

Jerry Minor (I got a "You're not bringing back ____?!" my FIRST season watching live), David Koechner, Michaela Watkins, Casey Wilson... I don't disagree, and the baffling calls still baffle. If the Troasts and Wakims can't be Parnell'd back to SNL, one hopes they find greener pastures beyond it.

Oi, Amazon/Denis Villeneuve/David Heyman & Amy Pascal/whomever else it may concern...

I'm hitting 37 next month, so if you could set your sights on gents 38 and up to play the next James Bond, I'd love that. I might rejoin Prime if you did THAT.

I mean, I'M not pro-"Cousin Planet" as so many are, so I'm not *totally* in parade-throwing mood.

The latter there's NO arguing with. The sketches/segments that have featured her lately have shown me that, even if she likely won't be as strong an actor as an Ashley Padilla, her skillset isn't nearly AS narrow as it had been, and there are *some* writers getting a feel for how to write for her.

i don't have much enmity toward this ep., but not much of it entirely worked to me either. Colman always did, though, and, as predictable a comment/complaint as this is, he should've had a better show. 3-4 segments I can recommend, though, which isn't too shabby. #SNL

A year ago, I'd have been...if not 100% with you, close to it - but I've seen a lot of improvement lately and been far more positive toward her than I'd expected at the top of the season/more than I am toward a handful of other cast members currently.

"Beastomorphs" - I enjoyed this conceptually much more than in reality. Even a mild, compromised version of Sarah's grotesquerie is like "Manna from Heaven" given that we get NONE of it lately...but this should've been better and more distinct, because the semi-nostalgia-skewering idea is fun. #SNL

"Prep School Teacher" cont. - ...and making *most of* the students way OVERzealous about this nonsense rebellion powered this pretty well. I do think the ending would've played better if it hadn't looked, to me, like they were on the gound floor (or at least not HIGH up), but...ah well. #SNL

"Prep School Teacher" - "I don't know, let's put that in!"

Not as purely funny a send-up of the "inspirational teacher movie" as the Ego Nwodim sketch from the Megan Thee Stallion ep. a few years back, but making the John Keating type a Math teacher is a funny, solid idea... #SNL

"Grandpa's Wake" cont. - Oh right, they put Jost in this. You don't have to do that so much, #SNL, it's not THAT interesting. (Plus...not like you DON'T have enough white guys in the cast otherwise.)

"Grandpa's Wake" cont. - Even though we've seen Mikey play skeevy guys of this kind before, I did find "getting back in there" bit one of the funnier moments. #SNL

"Grandpa's Wake" - I didn't find this *terrible*, but I found it a lackluster "parade of unsettling weirdos" sketch (and i tend to love a "parade of unsettling weirdos" sketch), pretty "first base" and repetitive in its writing. I would love it to have used our host more and more interestingly. #SNL

"Grandpa's Wake" - You know what you should watch if you haven't? You should watch Colman Domingo throw you for a loop or two in ZOLA. I wish this sketch had surprised me as much or as delightfully as 1 or 2 particular moments of his performance there. #SNL

WU, "Gen-Z sexpert" cont. - I don't mean this to be patronizing, but it probably IS somewhat, but I love seeing Jane developing any facility for character work at all - we're seeing her find *her wheelhouse*, but she's not inflexible within that wheelhouse, which is good stuff. #SNL

WU, "Gen-Z sexpert Lindt Greer [if YouTube subtitles are to be believed]" - As with Jane's spot as the lady with the baffling buttons, I love this. I love her interplay with Che (DON'T love my rhyming), love her character work as this declarative kook trying to barrel over her cluelessness... #SNL