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The weirdest season ofSaturday Night Livesincethe one with Anthony Michael Hallis over.
Michael Che and Colin Jost were on the cover ofSNL Magazinein aKyle Mooney pretape thats a point!
Two points are awarded for delivering a few jokes and three for carrying the sketch.
Extra points are awarded for applause breaks, which happened almost every timeKate McKinnon showed up as Elizabeth Warren.
You also get an extra point for saying Live from New York, its Saturday Night!
Heres the full LFNY breakdown:
We also looked at who got Cut for Time the most.
Nearly every week, a few sketches get cut between dress rehearsal and the live event.
And on top of that,SNLhas been releasing Digital Exclusive content this season.
What makes these sketches different from the ones cut for time?
Either way, its fun to look at these to see what could have been on the air.
Former cast members returned to play Biden and Bloomberg, Kamala and Klobby.
They showed up in the monologues of alums like Will Ferrell and Murphy.
How is this cast supposed to compete not only with each other, but with the ghosts of 8H?
He distinguished his performance from Josts by edging more into the commentary side of topical humor.
While Jost reads punch lines, Che is trying to tell you how he sees things.
Other than that, his biggest moment this season was getting smanged to death in acut sketch with Lizzo.
The threeAt Homeepisodes have been some of Davidsons most prodigious.
And like every other hope I had for 2020, that did not happen.
Aside from a co-venture with Chloe Fineman in the lastAt Homeepisode, Villasenor was often relegated to Friend No.
3 bits in group scenes.
She did get a chance to sing once on Update, and it got people who dont usually watchSNLtalking.
Unfortunately, those people were MRAs, but press is press.
It was sort of a meta joke about how bland some people find Jost.
He definitely seems more human when exchanging jokes with Che, to each others great discomfort.
Thebit started last seasonand came back for Christmas and corona this year.
But of course, the real MVP of the Scarjost household is that guitar.
Chloe Fineman: 3.85%
The quarantine episodes have really given freshman Fineman a chance to shine.
Hopefully shell be able to get more of that mess onstage whenSNLreturns to 8H.
Bowen Yang: 4.04%
Bowen Yang was bumped up from writer to featured performer this season.
He made a big splash behind the Update desk as theTrade DaddyandBottle Boi.
We must get rid of toxic in community.
Ego Nwodim: 4.83%
Ego Nwodim didnt get her own featured sketch until the end of last year.
This year, shes become the queen of dismissive faces.
During quarantine, she delivered pitch-perfect parodies ofinfluencer YouTube.
Heres hoping these sketches can become recurring pretapes in season 46.
SinceSNLis mostly consumed via YouTube now, it just makes sense to try and keep satirizing it.
Alex Moffat: 4.92%
Moffat shouldve had a better year.
There are plenty of smug whites in politics that could have been occupying his time.
Kyle is always Kyle; even in sketches in which hes playing Brother No.
Heidi Gardner: 5.94%
Heidi Gardner has BGE: Big Groundlings Energy.
She brought back her teen movie reviewerBailey Gismertand theweird cousin.
She also added a crazed kind of positivity to the motivational exercise sketches.
I really admire her ability to wear the most uncomfortable and shitty aspects of white womanhood.
Mikey Day: 6.73%
Mikey Day is a laugh cuck.
He lives to get dunked on in sketches.
Being the omega dog has paid off for Day.
Give Strong an awards-baiting dramedy, you cowards!
Something about overcoming a trauma while working at a tourist trap in Georgia or something.
One of the kids fromThe Haunting of Hill Housecould teach her life lessons about letting go of the past.
The thing writes itself.
Aidy Bryant: 6.96%
Aidy Bryants bewildered head bob is God-tier.
Theyre like a funnyBlack Swan,showing off Bryant as a woman barely tethered to our world.
Beck Bennett: 7.20%
SNLslots Beck Bennett into almost every role imaginable.
Many an episode wouldnt have a Thompson sighting until after Update, something unthinkable last year.
Thompson has been working overtime, continuing developingThe Kenan Showand executive-producing theAll Thatrevival.
But hes been holding it down during theAt Homeepisodes.
He even managed to revive What Up With That?
from his Tampa home.
Playing Elizabeth Warren got her plenty of applause breaks, as did her Rudy Giuliani for some reason.
In fact, McKinnon gets the most applause breaks and LFNY bonus points of any cast member.
Aside from that, she frequently became a double act with Bryant.
The two giggled their way throughapple pickingandold New York.
Cameos: 9.84%
Which ringer will play Biden when the election ramps up?
Grabby Joe was played by Woody Harrelson, John Mulaney, and a returning Jason Sudeikis.
DoesSNLreally want a world where both parties candidates are played by cameos?
The answer is obviously, depressingly, yes.
They get the write-ups on Sunday morning.
People tweet, Ooooh, Dratch!
When done well, a surprising and well-cast famous face can be fun as hell.
But theyre not surprising anymore.
There were fewer episodes with Villasenor than there were with guest stars.
Will Ferrells episode boastedeight!
This is an incredibly fun cast, with lots of strengths and unique points of view.
Give them a chance to shine, Lorne.
