It's a house that's big enough to live in with someone else butalso small enough to live in alone, and there are very few places that have that feeling.
The comedy skit show stands apart from the rest not only because it is a cast of comedians versus a single talk show host, butalso because it airs live only once a week, meaning there are less opportunities for artists to score an appearance.
The cinematographer, Frederick Elmes, produces an even, gray light that is quite handsome in a neutralizing way butalso sobering and almost punitive it says that the American banality in which the characters live is all there is.