Let’s just say it’s too soon. Saturday Night Live’s special “at home” quarantine edition, with cast members appearing remotely in pre-taped, Zoom-like, mostly solo bit…
Check out the videos below., appeared from what looked to be a kitchen or maybe wet bar, to explain the at-home premise, the non-live approach and the absence of audience reactions. “Is it going to look a little different? Yes,” Hanks said in what proved an understatement.
Next came the inevitable corporate Zoom meeting parody, with Mikey Day as a supervisor walking his staffers through the remote process, and Aidy Bryant and McKinnon as the office receptionists who just didn’t get it . “Once Trump starts calling it The Harlem Virus we ain’t never going to get a cure,” he said. Not exactly a bad joke, but torpedoed nonetheless by someone’s inexplicable decision to have each quip met by the canned, lackluster chuckles of what sounded like three, maybe four people. The unintentional result was the human equivalent of crickets chirping .
Che addressed the death of his grandmother from COVID-19 this week by telling Jost how much she loved Update’s periodic “joke swap” routine, in which Jost is forced to read an offensive, usually racist joke. Jost complied, though Che got the last word by admitting his grandmother never watched the show. Che did offer a nice tribute, though, by signing off as “Martha’s Grandbaby.”
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