SNL

The consistent problem with SNL over the years has been the effort to turn things into marketable licenses rather than simply a one-off funny skit. Like, say, Debbie Downer -- hilarious the first time and toenail-out-with-pliers excruciating with each successive attempt to replicate that first time. Or Baby-Hands. Same thing. Would be a classic moment in SNL history but undercut by attempts to replicate. But nothing can match that first shocking moment of the baby hands. It's lazy by-the-books comedy. In my opinion, Lorne Michaels is the one who needs to be gone and then you might get something fresh with the writing. In the 70s he was a renegade. By the 90s he was establishment. Today, he is like your grandpa who should be retired but won't.