It’s fun for the audience to watch chaos somehow be corralled on live television, and I think that my appearance on “Weekend Update” as Goober the Clown was its own version of that.

This year, in a curious twist, the readers' choice is Nelly and the RFT's is Edwards, who, it should be noted, trailed the self-professed clown from U-town by only a few votes. Quite frankly ...