Friday, October 30, 2026

Every Sketch Show Is Better Than 'Saturday Night Live'


Or, at least that's how it seems when journalists and critics talk about The Kids in the Hall, Mr. Show, Key & Peele, I Think You Should Leave...

For the A.V. Club, I wrote about the new documentary SCTV: The Greatest Show You've Never Heard Of, which celebrates the bygone Canadian series. But what's interesting is that the movie spends a decent amount of time using SCTV to bash SNL. Why does the media have this tendency with sketch shows that aren't SNL? My essay is here.