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Morgan Wallen was invited, disinvited, then cancelled. Donald Trump was president, claimed COVID would disappear, then got COVID while in office. Jim Carrey played Joe Biden. Elon Musk played Wario. And
Saturday Night Live did a 15 minutes sketch about a fly landing on Mike Pence's head during a presidential debate.
Season 46 of SNL feels like it's been going on for approximately five years. It was a season made under incredibly difficult circumstances—kicking off during the waning days of the Trump presidency and with a deadly pandemic raging across the globe—and the comedy has suffered as a result. There were only three or four really good episodes this season, and only a handful of hosts who were in sync with the rhythms of live sketch comedy. Otherwise, there were moments where the strain of trying to make comedy out of this historically dark period was just unpleasant.