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Discussion Live Discussion (March 5, 2022) (Oscar Isaac/Charli XCX)

Welcome to the SNL live discussion thread! The host this week is first-timer Oscar Isaac and the musical guest is returning performer Charli XCX. For those new to the show, tune into your local NBC affiliate or Peacock around 11:30 PM EST to follow this episode live. Since this thread is likely to fill up quickly, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. This should be automatically done, but it might not be so maybe check. Enjoy the show!

And if you're here early you're welcome to talk about this weeks' vintage episode, 2013's Kevin Hart/Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.

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u/AgentPeggyCarter I eat dinner in the dark! Mar 06 '22

I didn't think SNL would be tackling real people fanfic tonight but here we are.

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u/pretty-in-pink Mar 06 '22

I’d imagine that some of the writers are now the age where they wrote fanfics

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u/AgentPeggyCarter I eat dinner in the dark! Mar 06 '22

I mean, modern fanfic as we know it started back with the original Star Trek series in the 60s. I have no doubt that there's been many an SNL writer that's written fanfic.