"Get Ready with Me" (cont.) - ...which is to give almost every character in a scene a 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, so that the funny is 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒, which - more often than not - renders a sketch diffuse/unfocused for the worse. #SNL "Get Ready with Me" (cont.) - For example, I spent much of 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 thinking, "Is this about this demented influencer or is this dad at the end of his rope?" I know that there's a production reason for that with a sketch like this... #SNL "Get Ready with Me" (cont.) - They have to change what's on the green screen behind Dakota, for example - but I wasn't feeling this one enough...and then JAJ's jovial greetings to the girls got funnier ("Hey hey, my little white C-words...") and his whole on-the-brink character grew funnier... #SNL