Should SNL retire Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump impression?

The Hollywood Reporter

The cold opening to Season 43 brought nothing new to the table, except for more of the recent Emmy-winning Baldwin’s Trump "puckered anus mouth,” says Daniel Fienberg. The impression has gotten so staid that President Trump doesn’t bother to tweet about it anymore. “Just because it takes absolutely nothing to trigger @RealDonaldTrump doesn't mean that it's mandatory to do a Trump sketch even if you don't have anything funny to bring to the table,” says Fienberg, “and the opening sketch was as perspective-free as anything SNL has done on Trump since back in the glory days when Lorne Michaels got killer ratings for letting Trump host and then just one year later collected piles of Emmys for ‘taking Trump on.’ After you've had it both ways, where else is there to go?”

ALSO:

• The Season 43 premiere was slightly down from last year’s premiere — its second-best premiere since 2010
• The premiere was mostly unremarkable and clunky
• Co-head writers Sarah Schneider and Chris Kelly have departed just one year after their promotion
• SNL was in a bind in trying to mock news Trump/Puerto Rico news breaking on Saturday morning
• Ryan Gosling is a great actor, but he’s not a “live TV guy”
• SNL misspells “neutral” in "Levi’s Wokes” ad