If there is anything good about the delta variant of COVID-19, it is that it reminds us of a vanished, better time when Saturday Night Live was actually funny.
Notes:
1. I would not rank the Delta Delta Delta sketches as among the funnier material from that era of SNL, but they are ten times better than anything on the show now.
2. Years after I first watched those sketches, I was shocked to learn that Delta Delta Delta is a real sorority; the members were not happy about how they were portrayed.
3. A character in the above sketch discusses the minerals calcite and halite, which is almost certainly the only time that those minerals have been mentioned on SNL, and possibly the only time that they have been mentioned on network television in general.
