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With a nice scrollytelling format, via Quantum of Solazzo’s newsletter, we are able survey the changes in cast and host of Saturday Night Live over its fifty plus year history of sketch comedy and lampooning of the powerful. Each season has a heading, renaissance or ruin, with an overview and clickable biographies (short and too brief perhaps but with interesting asides, like how Julia Sweeney’s androgynous “Pat” character was made the subject of a film in 1994 or that Sarah Silverman had made limited, regular appearances for a single year—my memory of SNL like with The Simpsons to have stopped and cemented at a certain point though still appreciated, which I’m sure it has done for many after college and moving abroad) of the not-ready for primetime players with the ensemble cameos sliding in and out to show their longevity and network of connections and an interesting overview of matriculating emertii and emeritae.