Say what you will about child actors–that they are unhuman replicants, that their massive armies of well-equipped tweens will destroy us all, that they are the stuff of nightmares–they were literally born to perform. That doesn’t mean they’re very good at it, but they’re definitely comfortable doing it. If anything, they’re TOO comfortable. This week’s Saturday Night Live host, Miley Cyrus, was far too quick to just burst into song during her opening monologue. It’s like, wait, WHO ARE YOU EVEN? But for the most part, she did a relatively serviceable job considering her age (11) and her amount of innate talent (middling). There were a couple of real duds this week, but it was never for a lack of EFFORT. You could practically see the Vaseline on Miley’s teeth! Much like you could practically see the drugs coursing through The Strokes’s veins. We can make all the fun we want about Justin Bieber’s “swagger coach” and yet no one says a word about the fact that The Strokes have clearly employed a “drug addict coach” to give them that just-so look. It’s working! Those dudes look terrible!

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