“Also, there’s no such thing as Saturdays anymore. Just every day is ‘Today,'” actor quipped
“Hey all you cool cats and kittens,” Hanks said, making the firstjoke of the evening. “It’s good to be here, but it’s also very weird to be here, hosting Saturday Night Live, from home. This is a strange time to try and be funny, but trying to be funny isAs for his near-shaved head, Hanks ensured viewers that he cut off his hair for a role and it is not a COVID-19 side effect.
Hanks then touched on being diagnosed for the coronavirus while in Australia, noting that doctors there use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit when taking temperature . Hanks added that both he and his wife Rita Wilson are now doing fine.episode would work, and even threw in a brief “question and answer monologue,” taking questions from himself in disguise.“Also, there’s no such thing as Saturdays anymore. Just every day is ‘Today,'” the actor quipped.
Hanks closed out his kitchen monologue with some hopeful words. “Hey, stay safe, we are in this for the duration, and we will get through this together,” Hanks said. “We are going to thank our hospital workers, our First Responders and all the helpers, the supermarket stockers, the people who deliver our food, the people who are making takeout for us, the men and women who are keeping this country going at a time when we need them more than ever before.
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