So I would never call Saturday Night Live my favorite show because frankly Saturday Night Live is never good enough to be my favorite show.  And I don’t mean lately, I really and truly mean never.  Saturday Night Live might be one of the most important shows in my life though.  And I still enjoy it.  I still watch it because I have been watching it for basically my whole life.  Growing up, it had this mythic quality, and not just because my parents and their friends talked about how good it used to be and how it had really declined.  There was this magical original cast.  That’s when things were truly great.  This holds appeal, it’s why it’s not just the basis of so much of our literature, it’s really the basis of our culture.  Look around the world and most cultures have stories of how much better things used to be.  Not just in the cranky old man sense.  There is of course the Garden of Eden (or the golden people of Greek Mythology or whatever, you don’t care) but also there is the general thrust of almost 1000 years of Western history spent trying to recapture the glory of the Roman Empire.  The best Star Wars movies don’t start with the Universe being awesome, no, the Universe used to be awesome, now it kind of sucks but this kid might be able to get things back.  So SNL had that kind of pull always.  Mix that in with the truly epic ability to stay up late.  Kids would brag about having seen an episode on Monday because we didn’t have DVRs or the internet.  It was live or nothing. So if you saw Wayne’s World you were clearly pretty fucking cool.  It also means the only time I saw SNL were times I either snuck out of bed and into the basement to watch or at slumber parties.  So these memories have power.  So while it is not my favorite show i have deep love for SNL.  Nostalgia is a powerful thing.  And all of that is really why Vanessa Bayer is here.  She didn’t do anything special last night, I don’t recall her looking and particular way that stood out.  I have just been attracted to her basically since she joined the show.  She has shown up here before actually.  She is pretty, she is funny, but there is just something kind of pleasant and likeable about her in general.  I think really it’s all got to be influenced by how important SNL always was to me growing up.  She becomes part of the myth, too.  But whatever the reason today I want to fuck Vanessa Bayer.