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There's people that don't skip the intro? I just hit the 30 second skip 3-4 times to get to where the host is coming out. Saves like 2 minutes of time.

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I skip the intro and stop it when they announce the musical guest and host.

I watch it in full for the season premiere and then for the season finale to relive who was on that cast that year.

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If you skip the intro, you miss Chloe Fineman pole dancing in a sexy red dress.

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Ah, right, if you just watch it on youtube I can understand not knowing who some of these guys are, particularly new cast members or ones that don't have unique characters/characteristics.

I dunno, it's short enough and iconic enough that I just let the intro play.

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I watch it live OTA every week, so no skipping for me. I have that damn intro memorized at this point!

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It's pretty hard not to notice the unintentional rhyme of Michael Che / Mikey Day!

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Yep! :lol:

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Whether you watch the credits and see the names and players identified, I guess I just incorrectly presume that people want to know the names of the actors they regularly watch on any TV show. The credits for "Game of Thrones" never matched the names of the actors to any of the characters, but I still knew who everyone was.

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I'm like you on that (even when I was a kid I tried to learn cast members' names on various shows), but I'm guessing that there are tons of people out there who don't give a crap about things like that.

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Yeah, we might be seeing the effects of an age gap here; some of us come from the days when the intro to a show (and theme song) were just part of the viewing experience. I couldn't imagine watching say, an episode of Cheers, without hearing "Where Everybody Knows Your Name". Same with SNL. Even if the intro now takes up half the show's 90 minute slot, there's something about seeing all the cast members, hearing their name, and random scenes of NYC that are just part of the SNL experience. Things like the cab driver eating the watermelon or that guy breakdancing (or whatever the hell he was doing) in the subway car are etched in my memory. Longtime viewers of the show here will immediately place the image to the descriptions I just posted.

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Jeez. He couldn't get the girl on the right? Loser.

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https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/dvdtalk...1dbb1a0b1b.jpg

credits image burned into my brain

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Dismukes is no Jost or Davidson in the pulling hot tail department.

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Maybe partially but at least in the specific case here we’re talking about a specific person who is so forgettable major publications make note of it. To use the game of thrones analogy it’d be weird if i was a watcher who didn’t know Charles Dance’s name but gun to my head I don’t know who played Lord Varys and Mikey Day is no Lord Varys.

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Let's be honest.

Mikey Day is not the biggest star on the show. However, when Vanity Fair makes a comment like the one you posted, it is clearly meant to be addressing his level of fame to the general public. The premise that Mikey Day is not so famous an SNL cast member is made in the context that people like Bowen Yang and Pete Davidson and Kate McKinnon would be familiar. The people in this forum are not the general public. They are people who not only watch the show, but are invested enough in it to share their opinions about it. At the time this discussion first started, Day had been in the main cast for several years and was regularly in multiple sketches on every show. He was in many of those years' most famous and viral sketches. He is also one of the show's top writers. This all started with the "Beavis and Butthead" sketch that was one of the most famous sketches of that season, and that Day wrote. My point is, and I promise to never try to make it again, is that I honestly could not wrap my head around the idea that someone who was a regular watcher and fan of the show would not know who Mikey Day was. No matter what other factors were involved, I just thought there would be a natural curiosity that would lead to that knowledge.

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There was nothing dishonest about my characterization of their comment., They said you may not remember the name of the star of a major show for 9 seasons. That's the definition of forgettable.

And your point is taken. I can't wrap my head around quantum physics. You can't wrap your head around me not being interested in the name of a relatively untalented cast member of a tv show I watch. It's cool.

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Who is the "you" they are addressing? Matthew Harrison Brady?

Since the first sentence of the VF article feels the need to inform the reader that the 50th season of SNL has come to an end, does that seem like the "you" (the reader) is someone who regularly watches SNL?

Again, the "you" the article is addressing is someone with a more general interest in SNL, and Mikey Day is not one of the current cast's standout stars. So no, he is not a household name like the super-talented and fantastic Bowen Yang.

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For whatever reason, a lot of the white guys on SNL just sort of blend together and nobody really stands out unless they get a really memorable recurring character or a standout impression of someone famous. Seems like they're all just these nerdy guys with dark hair and become, at best, "that guy." See James Austin Johnson who, while nerdy as fuck, has light hair and plays donald trump. He stands out. He stood out when he was just a featured player.

Seems like, over the past couple of decades, it's been the women who tend to be standout performers. I can instantly recognize Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman, Sarah Sherman, Kate McKinnon, or Kristen Wiig.

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It's a constant education for me that other people do not consume media in the same manner that I do.

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I dont see a non regular viewer giving a shit at all who comes back for season 51. I'm a regular viewer and I barely give a shit.

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We've already established that your general curiosity about the world leaves something to be desired.

Media outlets do stories about subjects that would be considered general interest. This would be one of those subjects. SNL is an important television institution that has been all over the media over the past year. A media outlet could rightly presume that interest in the show is at its highest level in decades.

When season 2 of Wednesday gets closer to its premiere, media outlets will do stories about the show and Jenna Ortega. Why? Because everyone watches Wednesday? No. Because it is a big enough deal, pop culture-wise, to merit coverage as a matter of general interest.

Think about how much people that don't give a shit about Taylor Swift know about Taylor Swift just because the media covers her life as a matter of general interest.

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:lol: Sure we have

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I mostly just follow SNL out of habit. I record and tend to FF though a lot of it. I feel lucky if there's one memorable sketch in an episode. A lot of it just tends to turn into a kind of bland soup.

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If I'm Devon Walker I've got to be nervous, right?

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Without knowing how much or little he contributed to writing or how many things he’s done that were good but still cut from the show I’d say I’d be nervous if I were him.