Variety: “To me, she’s like if Pee-wee Herman and Gilda Radner had a comedy baby,” says Nick Marx, an associate professor of film and media studies at Colorado State University, who is a co-editor of “Saturday Night Live and American TV,” a 2013 book of analytical essays about the show. “The dominant mode of comedy in the last 10 to 15 years is writerly — it’s talking and verbal jousting,” he says. But Sherman’s colorful antics “stand out in a clip-driven social-media environment,” and might be more of the moment in an era when many viewers get their “SNL” fix by watching viral videos from the show at times of their own choosing.

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