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Saturday Night Live - Season 44 Episode 01: Adam Driver/Kanye West
On Saturday night, new stars around the world's most famous show, a late-night comedy show featuring several short plays, simulations of TV commercials, and a live band. It is a new team of award-winning celebrities performing comics and popular music stars. It is a new season featuring many celebrities in all fields.
The regular cast has been increasingly diminished over the last few years, and if last night's episode is an indication, it's happening to the hosts, now, too.
It's not that Driver was a bad choice out of the gate, it's that SNL booked a singular talent for its first episode and didn't find a way to use him well, even with a summer to think about it.
Even pre-Trump, Kanye and "SNL" have always had a weird hate-hate relationship, but now we're not even getting any good performances to go along with that.
The show failed to maintain the energy of that cold open, which also included a surprise cameo by SNL alum Rachel Dratch (and a cardboard cutout of Alyssa Milano).