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        <title><![CDATA[Saturday Night Live emerges from coronavirus ashes — with Tom Hanks hosting from his kitchen]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“<strong>Saturday Night Live</strong>” emerged from the pandemic quarantine ashes with a fresh, if unconventional, episode Saturday night — including a cold opening “Zoom” montage with cast members phoning it in from their own kitchens and living rooms.</p><p>“It’s Saturday Night Live … At Home!” the announcer shouted before introducing, as the evening’s host, actor and recently <strong>recovered COVID-19</strong> patient <strong>Tom Hanks</strong>.</p><p>“Hey, all you cool cats and kittens!” Hanks joked from his kitchen, channeling animal activist Carole Baskin from Netflix’s smash “<strong>Tiger King</strong>” docu-series.</p><p>“I have been the celebrity canary in the coal mine for the coronavirus,” Hanks explained of his hosting qualifications.</p><p>Hanks and wife Rita Wilson <strong>spent their virus convalescence</strong> in Australia, where doctors taking his temperature in Celsius would tell him, “Yeah, you’re 36!”</p><p>“Turns out, 36 is fine, but 38 is bad” Hanks quipped — “kind of like how Hollywood treats actresses.”</p><p>In one hilarious sketch, Kate McKinnon reprised her Ruth Bader Ginsburg impersonation, portraying the justice working out in sweats and a lace jabot.</p><p>As her honor, McKinnon pressed barbells made out of Q-tips, and showed the audience her “punching bags,” a pair of tea bags — one labeled “Kavanaugh,” the other “Gorsuch,” after President Trump’s appointees to the Supreme Court bench, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch.</p><p>“You’re gonna pee a little, every time you move,” she said while jogging feebly. “That’s normal.”</p><p>At one point, she shouted, still in character, “Dr. Fauci! Answer my DMs!”</p><p>“They say the virus came from a sick bat,” she said at another point. “Which makes me wonder — what was Giuliani doing in China?”</p><p><strong>Alec Baldwin</strong> phoned in a President Trump impersonation, and Larry David reprised his Bernie Sanders, opining from an armchair, “Always the bridesmaid, never the Democratic nominee.”</p><p>“Sanders” insisted he was doing fine, despite the coronavirus pandemic and dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.</p><p>“Please, I’m a 78-year-old man living in Vermont. I have a whole room full of toilet paper,” he joked.</p><p>In fact, the quarantine and dropping out of politics will give him the much-needed chance to catch up on things, he said, explaining, “I finally have the time to relax and finish that heart attack from October.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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