Paul Rudd’s return to “Saturday Night Live” hosting duties was already primed to be a special one, both as his official entry into the show’s illustrious* Five-Timers Club and as the first host of this current season to have actually hosted the show before.
(*The reminder that Martin Short has hosted “SNL” only three times somehow managed to make the world turn even more upside down than it already is.)However, just hours before the episode aired, it was announced that musical guest Charlie Xcx would no longer be performing and that there would also no longer be a live audience for the episode, due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
Keeping in mind that this episode was also the official Christmas episode of the season, it was difficult not to go into it wondering just what “SNL” would have in store for all the viewers at home.
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