SNL may have come up with its latest iconic character. Meet Heidi Gardner as YouTuber and film critic Bailey Gismert. I watched this with a teen in the room, and even she was laughing… Also on the mark: The Dinner Discussion.

+ Chinese construction workers built a new railway station in nine hours.

+ That’s a big wave and a comparatively little surfer.

+ I’ve often wondered if my kids would listen to me more if I were a star quarterback in the NFL. I am so relieved to learn that the answer to that question is a resounding no.

+ Japanese farmers created a new kind of banana with an edible peel.