For example, creator Lorne Michaels explained how President Donald Trump’s recent COVID-19 diagnosis really threw a creative wrench into the works for Saturday Night Live’s season premiere.
The long-running sketch comedy has jumped through a few hoops to fill its audience seats, and has already taken on some major rapid-fire change-ups going into the weekend tapings.
By just about all measures, SNL’s 46th season may very well be the most complicated season for the cast members and writers to put together, given all things related to the pandemic and the upcoming presidential election.