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I was surprised. I thought they'd get someone from a holiday movie.

My most educated guess is that Macca is playing one song from Kisses on the Bottom, some other holiday standard, and a mystery third song.

It's not a problem, it's an opportunity. They have been very lucky in that three out of the four newbies in the latest round of cast additions look to be real keepers, and two of the four have been immediately quite productive. That those three happen to be women is a production issue, not a problem. In this instance you definitely change the show to fit the cast instead of letting the best of your newer cast talent lie fallow. I mean, it will be ridiculous if they don't do that. Run dreck like that idiotic drag sketch from the Daniel Craig episode, or write new sketches featuring the women as leads? The choice is obvious.

(They're probably going to need to produce a lot more sketches with roles for women in the second half of the season anyway. Only two of the ten fall hosts were women, a relatively low ratio. I suspect they'll have a lot more women hosting after the holiday break, meaning they'll need to write a lot more sketches like Girlfriends Talk Show. Again, this is an opportunity to write more material like the Tell Him sketch from last season.)

Would you rather it was ten years ago, when the show was cycling through the likes of Dean Edwards, Jeff Richards, Rob Riggle, etc., trying to find new blood?