Who should host Saturday Night Live this season?

Viola Davis has spoken frankly, as is her wont, about unequal opportunity when it comes to acting roles offered her. That she’s risen through the ranks to become an award-winning icon is a testament to her talent, but it’s a failure of Hollywood’s imagination that she’s synonymous mostly with intense nuance. Give this goofy sheep in dramatist’s clothing some sketch comedy! Davis would hit SNL out of the park like she did in the quirky Troop Zero or as bone-dry hilarious Amanda Waller in . And no shade to her history-making, Emmy-winning role, but it takes somebody with a firm grasp of camp to sell a long-running drama as ludicrous as How To Get Away With Murder. You can’t tell me the person responsible doesn’t have comedic chops. [Jack Smart]

How many times does Dave Bautista have to be great at everything (being serious, being funny, and I assume wrestling) before we as a society acknowledge that he’s great at everything? Not that hosting SNL should still be held up as some great honor, since they’ve had some real assholes taking that stage in the last few years, but Bautista would be incredible and he deserves the chance to put on a black hoodie and a fake goatee so he can play John Fetterman in a political sketch of some kind. He’s even got something to plug, with him appearing as the Dave Bautista character (a big guy with glasses who seems kind of sad) in M. Night Shyamalan’s ! [Sam Barsanti]

Has anyone proved themselves to be a perfect potential SNL host better than Tatiana Maslany? Orphan Black showed she can embody a range of characters with disparate accents and comedic sensibilities (plus, she can really work a wig). Her starring role on positions her as part of the biggest franchise in the world and gives her the cultural relevance necessary for a buzzy host. And by the way, she came up in her native Canada. The woman deserves a better shot at SNL than a bit part in a lesser-known! [Mary Kate Carr]

Tim Robinson was never the best writer/performer when it came to fitting his very specific comedic sensibilities into SNL’s more prosaic rhythms—possessing an unquenchable and uncomfortable weirdness that’s gone on to make his Netflix series I Think You Should Leave one of the best sketch shows of the last decade, while SNL has continued to … well, you know. But what if he wasn’t the one who had to change? Why not have the show bend to him, as host, instead of the other way around? John Mulaney’s proved that these kinds of former-writer victory laps can pay huge dividends; if nothing else, the result of a Robinson-led Saturday Night Live would be an incredibly strange piece of TV. [William Hughes]

Now here’s a host who can out-write the writers’ room. Meg Stalter cut her teeth on strange and luminous impression work: think “” or “” Now, she’s most recognizable as Hacks’ hilarious secret weapon, the confidently inept receptionist Kayla. With a semi-autobiographical HBO series on the way, it’s high time Stalter got the SNL treatment. Her stand-up is as resonant as her character work (promising a rare balanced episode) and her unique affect is mesmerizing on screen. Plus, who would dare argue with ? [Hattie Lindert]