'Saturday Night Live' recap: Louis CK does his thing

It's too bad the Polar Vortex doesn't inspire the same creativity as Hurricane Sandy. When Louis C.K. first hosted SNL in 2012, his debut was nearly ruined by devastating weather.

On his second run as an SNL host, Louis CK tackled his normal favorite subjects — single fatherhood, children, and women's rights — and then tied them all together in an existential question: if God is known as “Our Father,” then where the hell is

On his second run as an SNL host, Louis CK tackled his normal favorite subjects — single fatherhood, children, and women's rights — and then tied them all together in an existential question: if God is known as “Our Father,” then where the hell is

The second-time “Saturday Night Live” host drew big laughs with an eight-minute barrage of jokes on everything from God and heaven to domestic abuse and hunger during the show's opening monologue. “I don't have third-world hunger. I have first-world 

Thinking about why Louis C.K.'s two appearances on SNL have seemed so significant, it finally seems that he's simply bigger than the show. Sure, there are megastars and celebrities aplenty hosting SNL all the time, but what