NYT this morning runs a story about guest hosts on Saturday Night Live. It's a neat piece, even if it does feature Alec Baldwin. A few highlights:
When Baldwin hosts this Saturday, he will be tied with John Goodman for second on the all-time host list. Twelve times. Steve Martin is first with 13, and Martin will host again this February, for the first time since 2004. Buck Henry is fourth with ten appearances.
Possible skits this Saturday:
[A]mong the sketches under consideration earlier this week - there are typically 40 in all, which will ultimately be winnowed to 8 before show time - were these: a takeoff on "Brokeback Mountain" (the working title was "Brokeback Goldmine") in which Mr. Baldwin would play an old, gay prospector; a spoof of Take Our Daughters to Work Day, in which he would play a father who gets fired as his child looks on; and a reprise of his dead-on Tony Bennett, who would interview Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden or maybe Dick Cheney.
