Jed Rosenzweig

Former SNL cast member Gary Kroeger relates to Devon Walker’s assessment that the show can be “toxic as hell.” But mostly, as Kroeger writes on his Substack today, he resents Lorne Michaels for not having the “generosity of perspective” to fully embrace the show’s Dick Ebersol years.

Deadline has the first photos of Colbert portraying fictional late-night Scotty Bristol on the CBS procedural. Colbert’s epsiode airs  Oct. 12. [ via TV Tattle]

Emmy rules dictate that the number of nominee slots be a fraction of the number of shows submitted, which is why only three shows (out of 13 submissions) were nominated this year. As Variety‘s Michael Schneider writes, the TV Academy is already allowing YouTube shows like Hot Ones to submit, so why not video podcasts like the Kelce Brothers’ New Heights, too? [via TV Tattle]

As LateNighter’s own Nick Riccardo writes on his Screen Beat Substack, the misattributed and not-at-all-banned clips are being used as a trojan horse to sell… nasal sticks?