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Saturday Night Live: The Road to Season 50

Even MacGruber felt really stale. I feel like it was written and produced a year ago. It was probably an omen that the monologue was based around how much less famous he was than the rest of his late '00s castmates. Even as a returning alum, Forte got shafted!
 
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Women on Twitter will have a normal one reacting to this episode.

Mulaney has to be the fastest to join the Five Timers Club since the original cast (I know Buck Henry, Steve Martin, and Elliot Gould would consistently host twice a season back in the '70s). I'm really looking forward to seeing what the hell he has to say.
 
Danitra Vance was incredible. Needed a better cast. Also Joan Cusack > Nora Dunn.
 
It's a shame Danitra Vance didn't last long enough to do sketches with Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks.

Someone can cry foul at me for sounding like a misogynistic fool here but wasn't one of the main reasons she survived Season 11 because she was dating Lorne at the time?
 
That was always what I thought the situation was. She got a lot of time for being kinda mediocre just in general. Admittedly getting lost in the female cast members of the era is a really easy thing to happen but when the most memorable thing I can think of off the top of my head is her refusing to be on an episode, that says something.

Danitra Vance should have been a superstar. She got to do a ton of different stuff and knocked it all out of the park. By far top ten female cast member who could've been a top five if Lorne just gave her another two years.
 
It wasn't until Tim Meadows that Lorne knew how to utilize an African American castmember and even then it took 5 or 6 seasons and a complete cast turnover for him to find a niche (same thing happened with Tracy Morgan and Kenan).

I feel like Lorne just tried to micromanage black castmembers until everyone got mad at how white SNL is in the mid 2010s.
 
She might not have gotten in if Jesse Jackson didn't call out Ebersol on the air about how white the show was. Another hidden moment of greatness.

Tim Meadows is pretty much what he thought a black cast member could be for so long, a more polished Garrett Morris. I like both those guys so no hate intended but they were far from Eddie and would have been far from Vance. I also wonder if Lorne had any bitterness about Eddie Murphy being a huge star, just because it wasn't on his watch and only he Lorne Michaels was supposed to make cast members, but he never quite got Meadows to being a name. But Lorne vs the dead years is a big fascination and full of personal speculation to me.
 
Speaking of Season 11, I wonder if Damon Wayans flipping out and going off script also triggered Lorne's internalized racism. Damon was pretty adamant in Live from New York though that he doesn't think Lorne's a racist and he seems like a very honest, straight shooting dude.

Late '80s cast is one of the GOAT but it is exceedingly, aggressively white. No wonder why In Living Color was able to thrive.
 
It felt way more to me that Lorne didn't like Damon because he was more an Eddie Murphy than a Garrett Morris. Young, quick guy who knew how to pick moments and get a reaction, which Lorne hates. Tim Meadows was kind of what Lorne's version of Eddie would've been, I think. Old white guy's version of what an edgy young black guy should be. Pick your favorite out-of-touch ideas.

Rob Lowe as Arsenio that one time is still baffling.
 
I mean he doesn't mind white dudes that push the limits. Pete Davidson (and Chris Farley) came close to dying at 30 Rock and got zillions of second chances but Damon Wayans got annoyed by a crappy Mr. Monopoly sketch and he was gone ASAP.
 
He did let Garrett Morris get so coked out he thought there were killer robots after him and Kirk Douglas, though. That's pretty bad.
 
Rob Lowe just talked about that Arsenio sketch on Dana Carvey's and Spade's podcast. Which I fucking love. Tom Hanks was the guest this week and was incredible.

Danitra Vance was dyslexic and had trouble reading the cue cards which added on to her struggle in season 11.

And yes Lorne was dating Nora Dunn which Dunn announced to the whole cast and outright told them she would receive preferential treatment

And for season 11 nothing or no one was as bad as Anthony Michael Hall. Lorne's worst hire of all time
 
I was often very rude to him and he probably deserved most of it but we were all young (little 'y') and dumb once, so let's forgive and forget
 
There are always worse lame celebrity cuckings, and I can show work. But the idea Matt Young and Kattan are so close in social circle is amusing.
 
Wayne's World was released 30 years ago today.

I still remember being in the theater that night
 
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