Tag: SNL

V-Log: Incoherent Rambling About #SNL, #CancelCulture & The #Novel I’m #Writing

Shelton Bumgarner

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Some thoughts.

Melissa Villaseñor Should Be SNL’s New Trump

Shelton Bumgarner

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

How better to troll Trump than to have Mexican-American Melissa Villaseñor play him? But she needs to play him as completely deranged. Don’t even try to give an accurate impression of him. I might add guys in white coats and butterfly nets as his Secret Service protection. Really play up that the popular Trump narrative has changed significantly lately. I say this because Chevy Chase didn’t look anything like Jerry Ford and still managed to do an iconic impression of him.

Who Will One Day Replace Lorne Michaels At SNL?

Shelton Bumgarner

By Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

Lorne Michaels is a TV institution unto himself, but he’s no spring chicken. There’s going to come a point when he feels the need to retire. The only person I could possible see replacing him is, of course, Tina Fey.

Fey is at a point in her career where she might be enticed to take up running SNL. She’s the only person I can think of who has fits the sweet spot of having worked at SNL and also having the writing skill to take the show into its 50th decade.

I struggle to think of anyone else who could fill Michaels shoes. I doubt they would want to bring in an outsider, no matter how talented or powerful they might otherwise be. But if Fey wasn’t available, I guess they would have to find someone. They would need someone who was a name brand person who was just as networked in showbiz as Michaels.

I dunno. I’m stumped. But much like Queen Elizabeth, Michaels may surprise us all and simply keep going long, long, long after we assume he would otherwise retire.