Critic's Notebook: Jim Carrey's Joe Biden Can't Save Toothless 'SNL' Season 46 Premiere

hollywoodreporter.com:

I feel bad for Saturday Night Live. I really do. The stupid line — one I've written myself a couple of times, I'm sure — is to look at a season premiere episode and say, "That's the best they could come up with after being off the air for four months?" But what's even the point of trying to pretend to go through a traditional comedy writing process when you know that whatever you write on Tuesday night will be usurped by five crazy things on Wednesday, a dozen earth-shattering developments on Thursday and a steady stream of idiocy and insanity all day Friday and even Saturday.

In his monologue to open Saturday night's season 46 premiere, Chris Rock joked, not particularly amusingly, that President Trump has "the most energy of any.