#that tuberculoid waif is on my shit list

[marisatomay]

I think what’s extra appalling about this—beyond the fact that SNL held a candlelight vigil when Ukraine was attacked by Russia just for comparison—is that the host on an episode of SNL, in this case Timothee Chalamet, doesn’t just give a thumbs up to the sketches, the host (and their retinue of PR people and agents) and Lorne Michaels (with the approval of NBC) handpick the sketches from dozens presented to them which are then dress rehearsed and sometimes cut or altered if they don’t play well for the dress rehearsal audience. And this particular sketch was a digital short so it was filmed and edited and screened for presumably many, many people prior to the episode airing. The number of people who saw this concept, this sketch and approved it to air is astronomical. And it did air.