Paul Rudd Hosts a Year-End ‘SNL’ Disrupted by the Omicron Variant

Since the beginning of the 2020-21 season, in October 2020, “S.N.L.” has aired a full run of live shows from its Manhattan home in Studio 8H in 30 Rockefeller Plaza with many new protocols in place but little apparent interruption. The onset of the coronavirus had forced the cancellation of several live broadcasts in its 2019-20 season, which the show finished out with episodes consisting of sketches its cast members recorded from their home quarantines.

But this week’s episode, which offered a mix of new segments filmed earlier in the week and vintage sketches from past years, was bound to come across differently.

Said O.J., ‘I can’t believe I got out of parole early but I did it.

Watch for impersonations of Carl Sagan, Dean Martin, Sally Struthers, George Hamilton and many more.

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