This is Kyle Mooney’s 8th season on SNL and they continue to mishandle and underutilize him. For his comedy to work, you have to put him center stage, give him a straight man to play off of, and let him go to the extreme. Stop just giving him ‘background weirdo’ parts and only letting him half-commit to his awkward characters. Look at his old videos where he interviews randos at MLB games, NBA games, as well as obscure niche conventions and imagine that character in “The Chris Farley Show” type sketch with Mooney replacing Farley. People often cite Kyle’s lack of versatility as his lack of success, but that’s bullshit. Even if he was as one note as people paint him, he is so fucking good at that one note that he would still be criminally underused. Kyle’s ability to turn a normal sentence into awkward jumble is lightning in a bottle, and I don’t care what you say. It’s fucking funny. But you have to let him fly, Lorne!

TLDR: Stop making Kyle Mooney be “NBC Weird” and let Kyle Mooney be “Kyle Mooney Weird”

And don’t get me started on Melissa Villaseñor