I love and appreciate Lorne Michaels, but his smug-ass aura makes me want to kick him in the shins.
The dude needed to start the process of gradually stepping back 10 years ago.
He’s not only holding the show back creatively and driving it into the ground by pandering to audiences that can’t carry the show anymore, but he’s also been excused of fostering an inexcusably toxic work environment. The dude dragged his feet for decades before begrudgingly embracing female comics, dragged his feet before begrudgingly accepting black comments,dragged his feet before begrudgingly accepting the demand from his favorite staff member that he hire more black women, demanded that they be nice to presidsnt Trump, pandered to racists by hiring a known racist comic (people in the scene as him said there’s literally no way anyone who did the bare minimum of research didn’t figure out what he was about), and has actively pushed the show to mediocrity when there’s talent
People like Tim Robinson and Zach Galifianakis make sense, because their writing is a bit too absurd and niche for the show.… Continue reading
Matt Underwood