Global Giggle Export: Why Tonight’s SNL Host Matters from Ouagadougou to Outer Space
Tonight, somewhere in the 30 Rock mothership, a freshly powdered celebrity will step under the Studio 8H lights and pretend, for 90 merciful minutes, that the world is still capable of laughing at its own reflection. The identity of the SNL host du soir hardly matters to the average citizen of, say, Ouagadougou or Vladivostok—unless,…