Back when my daughter was still a newborn, there were countless times when I would rock her back to sleep while watching Saturday Night Live. Years later, we’ve started watching every episode together, and it’s kind of become our thing. Watching SNL Season 51 hosts like Sabrina Carpenter and Glen Powell with my nine-year-old daughter has been a tremendous amount of fun, but also an eye-opening experience that has me looking at the show in a new way.
No, it’s not something like the jokes finally make sense or I see something new in the opening title sequence (which doesn’t seem to have changed this year), but instead a different perspective on the show in general, one from the eyes of a fourth grader diving into the world of sketch comedy. Allow me to explain…
