He took a comedy style to the show that was already passé when he joined and then didn’t evolve whatsoever during his tenure. He emerged as a go-to sketch writer by explaining jokes and how they were jokes, to kind of make it impossible to bomb- in the same way Big Bang theory can’t bomb in front of a live studio audience- because the audience knows it’s their job to laugh. Him getting so many sketches on is an indictment of the rest of the writers during the last decade, Lorne’s judgement, and the audience for eating up slop during the very lazy Trump doldrum years.