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Saturday Night Live - Season 44 Episode 01: Adam Driver/Kanye West
In the fourth and fortieth season, a new comedy show featuring a series of new celebrities in the world of music, news, art and other areas. The late-night features many short plays, simulations of TV commercials, a live band, and a guest cultural guest every week; All that is new in the varied caricatures and loud music that young people are presenting this season.
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.
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).
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.