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Who Scored Big in Week Eight of SNL’s Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Player Relevancy Poll?

This week’s Robert De Niro-hosted episode was not a good time to be a featured player on Saturday Night Live — or even a regular cast member who struggles for airtime (ahem, Abby Elliott). Save for his monologue and a pretty awkward “Mr. Produce” sketch, De Niro was delivered A-material that did a pretty solid job at hiding his faults as a host — which, of course, also means we were given three (!) recurring sketches: “What Up With That?”, “Blizzard Man” and “Vinny Vedecci.” As this week’s poll clearly shows, it was a week for the veterans.

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Who Scored Big in Week Eight of SNL’s Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time-Player Relevancy Poll?