Midnighter: You like the show because you do not wear DEEPLY RED sunglasses which affect your view of EVERYTHING. Read ANY thread on this Board (much less the Test Board) concerning Saturday Night Live, and you will discover a whole bunch of posters who are: (1) rooting for it to fail: (2) telling you how much it sucks, AND has sucked for years; (3) posting to express their ambivalence and/or ennui concerning SNL (which ambivalence and ennui are belied by the very fact that they are posting about it; usually repeatedly). Take one guess who they voted for in November 2020.
I voted Libertarian in 2020, not because I'm a Libertarian but because I wanted my vote to be counted and I didn't want to vote for Trump or for the Democrats. If the GOP put up a sane candidate I'd have voted Republican for POTUS for the first time in my life in 2020. I voted for Hilary in 2016 and I'm ashamed of that. I voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012, although if I had it to do over again I might not have voted for him in 2012.
I've realized over the past couple years just how corrupt the system is. In 2012 at the White House Correspondents Dinner Obama went and poked fun at Trump, who was there and who was doing his "Obama fake birth certificate" schtick at the time. And the dinner turned out to be at the same time the SEALs were getting bin Laden. The story the media told about it was how bad Trump was for his birther stuff and how brave Obama was for being there and enduring Trump's nonsense and how it was especially brave since he had the bin Laden raid on his mind. I, foolishly, bought it hook, line and sinker.
But now I think to myself what should have been obvious at the time, that being, WHY IS THERE A WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER? What's the point? To get the media more power, that's the point. And why does the POTUS go to it and play footsie with the media? To get more power and to sweet talk the media so they give him better coverage. Those things should have been part of the story too, along with the fact that it was especially bad for a POTUS to go to it DURING AN IMPORTANT MILITARY EVENT SINCE HE IS THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF!!! The media is supposed to be a watchdog of power, not accrue power for itself.
All of that, in addition to pointing out what a numnutz Trump was for doing the birther stuff, should have been the story, but the media just focused on Trump.
ETA: I watched SNL consistently through 2019 or so. It's only in the last year or two that I faded away from it. I'll watch it with Musk this weekend, although my expectations are high. The fact that SNL chose Alec Baldwin over Darrell Hammond to play Trump says a lot.