No, it wasn't Larry David's uncensored, boundary-pushing premium-cable comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm that made headlines and upset various groups this weekend. It was his stint as host on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

+ The monologue: David took his opening minutes at Studio 8H to make off-color jokes about the recent sexual harassment storyline roiling Hollywood. That's a dicey enough proposition as it is, as prior attempts from James Corden and others have proven, but David brought a new element to it. “I couldn’t help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews,” David said. This served as a launching point for riffs on who he considered to be good Jewish representatives (Einstein, Salk > Weinstein) as well as dating women at concentration camps.

+ The reaction: Well, let's just say it wasn't uniformly positive. "Awkward," said The New York Times, which added Alec Baldwin's shirtless appearance as Donald Trump into its assessment. The Guardian questioned whether David was "still funny" at all. The AV Club deemed the whole thing a "misfire." "What will it take to make men stop making the wrong jokes about rape?" asked Quartz.

+ The ADL: Perhaps the harshest critique came from the Anti-Defamation League. "He managed to be offensive, insensitive & unfunny all at the same time," tweeted ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. "Quite a feat."

+ The ratings: And yet ... the numbers were strong, with SNL hitting a season high according to Nielsen's early numbers. David's episode drew in a 4.7 household rating, besting 4.6 for the previous winner, Oct. 14's Kumail Nanjiani episode.

Elsewhere in TV...

? U.K. media regulator rules that Fox News breached impartiality rules. British media regulator Ofcom said on Monday that Fox News shows hosted by Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson violated the British broadcasting code's impartiality rules. 21st Century Fox pulled the plug on Fox News in the U.K. back in August, but Ofcom said it continues to investigate complains about the network that in before it stopped airing in Britain.

? Lin-Manuel Miranda to receive President's Merit Award at Latin Grammys. To be clear, it’s not from Trump: The award comes from Gabriel Abaroa, president and CEO of the Latin Recording Academy. Miranda will receive the award for “outstanding and numerous contributions to the Latin community” — which is not a yearly honor and has been given only to a very limited group of individuals — during the Latin Grammy telecast, airing Nov. 16 on the Univision Network.

? Jimmy Fallon takes week off Tonight Show after mother's death. The late-night host's mother Gloria Fallon, who attended her son's first night as the Tonight Show host, died on Saturday at the age of 68. As a result, Tonight Show tapings for the week of Nov. 6 have been canceled.

+ NBC sent the following statement: "On behalf of everyone at NBC, we extend our deepest condolences to Jimmy and all his family at this time of enormous loss. Our hearts go out to Jimmy and everyone else whose lives were so touched by Gloria Fallon’s love, kindness and support."

^Critic's Notebook: Fake punks, Hook and the 'Lost Sister' episode of Stranger Things. The Netflix series took a polarizing detour to Chicago with Eleven meeting a group of punks who resemble the Lost Boys in Hook, writes Daniel Fienberg:

I thought of Rufio and of Hook a lot when I was watching the season — especially the seventh episode, "The Lost Sister," which has become something of a whipping boy online, the obligatory "but" following a consensus "I really enjoyed the second season…"

When I watched the episode, I barely paused. It wasn't my favorite episode, but it also didn't slow me down. I thought it was a fun break from the show's normal rhythms and storylines. I missed the interactions with the main narrative, but my greatest disappointment was that somehow the Duffer Brothers took the show to Chicago and didn't make any John Hughes references at all. Read more.

? Diddy isn't Diddy anymore. The man occasionally known as Sean Combs has changed his name once again: The rap mogul and former Making the Band host now wants to be called Brother Love. "I'm just not who I am before," the many-named man said in a video posted to his Twitter. "I'm something different."

? Former Dodgers announcer Vin Scully says he "will never watch another NFL game." The reason? You guessed it: player protests. "I have overwhelming respect and admiration for anyone who puts on a uniform and goes to war," Scully said during a public interview in Pasadena.

+ "Obvious followup questions again go unasked," observed NFL journalist Patrick Claybon, suggesting that statements like these should inspire more context from the person asking the question. "You learn about interviewee *and* the interviewer in these situations."

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