The show must go on! Paul Rudd and a skeleton crew brave a pandemic-emptied SNL

An Omicron outbreak in New York didn't stop Paul Rudd's Five-Timers Club Christmas Saturday Night Live episode to proceed as scheduled, but it sure wasn't what we all expected following the removal of the studio audience, the cancelation of Charli XCX’s performance and the absence of most of the cast and crew.

SNL is over for the year closing out 2021 with a skeleton crew’s defiant bravado, Paul Rudd’s anticipated Five-Timers Club Christmas Show turned, at the obvious last moment, into a clip show.

In Paul Rudd's opening speech he promised a great show made up of brand-new sketches taped this week and personal favorites from past episodes. Rudd compares it to the new Beatles documentary Get Back: “A lot of old footage but enough new stuff that you’re like, ‘Yeah, I’ll watch that.’”

Tom Hanks and Tina Fey also joined the 2021's Sexiest Man in the World on stage.