Saturday Night Live tried to make the show work Saturday for the first time since shutting down last month because of the global COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. They did what so many others have done: They worked from home and gathered via Zoom.
The Saturday Night Live At Home show wasn’t live, and cast members certainly didn’t have the typical resources they normally would while filming segments in their homes. But with Tom Hanks “hosting,” they tried to put together some sketches, which obviously included jokes about and skits centered on people’s new quarantined lives.
Particularly relatable was SNL‘s skit Sport Report, providing sports updates in a world without sports. And like sports fans who are clinging to classic games, inventing sports with their cats, getting super into marble racing or trying to get Joe Buck to offer play-by-plays of everyday activities, reporter Bob Tisdale (Alex Moffat) is just trying to fill that void too.
He’s got a spatula for a microphone, recounted random things he saw out the window and did play-by-play recaps of computers racing to turn on and matches trying to stay lit as long as possible. Really riveting competition, and it’s a perfect summary for how sports fans are feeling these days.
The SNL show via Zoom was dominated by solo sketches and bits and included another sports-related one with the always brilliant Kate McKinnon bringing her impression of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg back.
While wearing a sweatshirt with “Super Diva!” printed on it, she led an exercise class poking fun at the justice’s famously challenging workout routine while rattling off some political zingers.
Here’s a look at what sort of replaced a traditional cold open with the SNL cast uniting on Zoom with McKinnon introducing the show: “And live from Zoom, it’s somewhere between March and August.”
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