Saturday Evening Reside tried to change lemons into lemonade throughout its remaining broadcast of 2021, welcoming again Tina Fey to the Weekend Update desk section in position of an absent Colin Jost.
Fey experienced previously appeared at the leading of this Saturday night’s exhibit, to be part of Tom Hanks in welcoming host Paul Rudd to the five-Timers Club. With just about all of the forged despatched dwelling and constrained crew on hand, Weekend Update was sent on the key phase, with Fey and Michael Che choosing to go in advance and go through these dumb jokes to an viewers of just Hanks, Rudd and Kenan Thompson.
Speculation about Fey’s possible visual appeal commenced to flow into Saturday night, not lengthy soon after SNL opted to forgo a stay viewers for the Rudd-hosted installment, citing problems about the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. (In change, musical visitor Charli XCX scrapped her prepared performances.) The New York Submit went on to report that numerous SNL forged customers experienced examined good for COVID in advance of Saturday’s exhibit, ensuing in Jost’s conclusion not to take part in the stay broadcast.
Fey very first served as SNL‘s Weekend Update co-anchor in 2000, along with Jimmy Fallon, soon after she was named the show’s very first woman head author. Just after Fallon remaining the collection in 2004, Fey and Amy Poehler co-anchored alongside one another till Fey departed in 2006. She’s returned to SNL on a number of events considering that then, together with turns as host in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 (with Poehler) and 2018.