[Larry the Loafer]

I just think the quality of the writing has plummeted over the years. I've found myself cringing at plenty of sketches and been unable to ignore how often Alex is seen laughing harder at Josh's jokes then the audience does to the point where I'm almost convinced Josh pays him to be his hypeman.

I caught a fairly recent episode where they'd planted a joke somewhere in the show that was written by AI. To the presumed detriment of the writers, a bunch of jokes that fell flat were erroneously assumed to be AI. If your show's writers are writing to a similar standard of a chat bot to the point where they can't be told apart, you really need better writers.