Paul Rudd Saturday Night Live to film without audience amid Omicron surge

People’s Sexiest Man Alive to host show for fifth timeNBC cites ‘abundance of caution’ behind Covid moveThe actor Paul Rudd, People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021, was set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on Saturday Night Live but the surging Omicron variant of the coronavirus meant there would not be a live audience to see it happen.The long-running sketch comedy show announced on social media on Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew, “due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution”.

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