Rob Sheffield on the venerable sketch show’s attempt to tailor an episode to the times—and why the experiment (mostly) worked
was an experimental attempt to adapt to the crisis, with a show full of remotely pre-taped sketches and a cold open featuring 17 cast members in a Zoom meeting. As host‘s whole thing. So we thought, what the heck! Let’s give it a shot.”has often tried over the years to react to a real-time crisis — think of Paul Simon singing “The Boxer” after 9/11. Or Chris Rock’s Nat X during the L.A.
riots, welcoming “all my fans watching on brand new TVs!” Or the 1979 nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island, with Rodney Dangerfield coming in to explain the effects of nuclear radiation on Jimmy Carter. The show wasn’t live this week, but that was the point. As Hanks said, “There’s no such thing as a Saturday anymore. Every day is today. And we’re not really live. But we’re doing everything to make this feel like theyou know and love.
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