Two new women who will have the status of featured players — Jenny Slate and Iranian-born Nasim Pedrad — will join the cast, not as replacements for anybody, Michaels says, although cute Casey Wilson and glamorous Michaela Watkins have concurrently left. Watkins may have been just too classically pretty to be hilarious. Anyway, the absences of Fey and Poehler will be felt.
No disrespect, she’s pretty, but is Michaela Watkins too pretty for comedy? What does that even mean? Holler at Carole Lombard, homie. And isn’t Abby Elliott the “cute” one? Shales is talking crazy, as usual.
