Ideas. I Have Them.

One of the things you'll hear about 90,000 times if you're a fan of Monty Python is how unique their decision was to simply end a sketch either nonsensically or whenever it ran out of steam; they'd just drop a Terry Gilliam animation & bounce to the next sketch.

Meanwhile, one of Saturday Night Live's problems is that it never lets a sketch go by without letting it go on too long, just like myself with this very sentence you’re reading right now. Even if a sketch is legit funny for a minute or two, instead of just taking the win & moving on they insist on grinding through another 5 minutes even as a dead man could feel the sketch spiraling.

AND SO:

I propose that after 50 years of pretty much doing the same thing over and over - THE RESULTS OF WHICH I BRAVELY DEFENDED, THANK YOU VERY MUCH! - Saturday Night Live not only adopt this Monty Python practice of cutting sketches short, but it should be a regular feature that the HOST has the right to immediately end a sketch at their own whim. Not only would it make for a very exciting live element, but who knows how many great otherwise-bumped-for-time sketches we'd get to see since now the crew is scrambling to fill time with a power-mad host reigning?