史无前例！汤姆·汉克斯新冠康复后首次亮相，为SNL居家作开场白，他都说了些啥？（附视频&摘要稿）

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SNL（《周六夜现场》）在新冠疫情期间回归了，本周六播出的这集是由全体人员在家推出的“SNLAtHome”。而这特殊的一期主持人是——汤姆·汉克斯。此前被确诊感染新冠的汉克斯看来状况不错，他在自家厨房做开场，说光头是此前为了拍电影剃的：“这个时候要试着搞笑有点诡异，不过SNL不就是试着搞笑吗，所以我们就想随便啦，试试好了。”

汉克斯自嘲是“新冠疫情的名人感染案例警报”，而且自从他公开感染一事，“如今的我比以前都要更像‘美国老爸(他的外号)’：没人愿意在我身边久待，我让人们感到很不安。”他感谢了澳洲(他确诊的地方)的人们对自己和妻子丽塔·威尔逊的照顾，又笑说但那里的人用摄氏度而不是华氏度，所以每次他被告知“你体温36度”都会吓一跳，结果被告知“36还是可以的，38就不好了”，“所以就像是好莱坞对待女演员一样”。汉克斯还表示：“现在这身西服，是我自3月11日以来第一次穿运动裤之外的东西。”得由妻子帮助他穿衣服，因为他快忘记纽扣是什么东西了。

What does “Saturday Night Live” look like without professionally crafted costumes, sets or hair and makeup? Without a studio audience or the ability of its cast members to be in the same place at the same time? This weekend, for the first time in the show’s 45-year history, audiences got the chance to find out.

Beginning with this week’s opening sketch, which showed all 17 cast members joining in a video call from their home quarantines and ended with Kate McKinnon exclaiming, “Live from Zoom, it’s sometime between March and August!,” it was clear this would not be your customary episode. Still, the show did all it could to keep things familiar, bringing in Tom Hanks as a guest host and Chris Martin as a musical performer and drawing upon its roster of famous alumni and celebrity pals.

It was a little over a month ago — March 7, to be exact — that “S.N.L.” broadcast its most recent live episode from its usual home at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center. Daniel Craig (whose new James Bond movie, “No Time to Die,” had been postponed four days earlier) was the host; the Weeknd was the musical guest; and Senator Elizabeth Warren, who had just dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, made a surprise appearance in the show’s cold open.

There were even a couple of sketches that joked about how the spread of coronavirus could have unexpected effects on our lives. We laughed at the time.

But within days, the late-night talk shows announced that they were suspending their programs. “S.N.L.” — which has halted its season only a few times, usually because of writers’ strikes — soon followed suit. Even as the talk shows returned a short time after, in minimalist formats optimized for home-sheltering, it seemed hard to imagine how “S.N.L.”, with its sizable cast and substantial productions, could do the same.

Nonetheless, “S.N.L.” returned with a full complement of sketches that let us see directly into the homes of its performers. (We’ll be thinking about the prominently placed acoustic guitar in Colin Jost’s apartment for a long time.) Sure, sometimes the audio was garbled or the lighting was off, and the whole thing had a distinctly YouTube-circa-2009 aesthetic. But the familiar wing-and-a-prayer spirit of “S.N.L.” — let’s just put this out there and see what sticks — was there, too, and a lot of it stuck.

Hanks, who has been a frequent “S.N.L” host, dating back to the mid-80s, appeared in a segment recorded at his home, where he poked fun at his own status as one of the first celebrities to disclose that he had tested positive for coronavirus. (He and his wife, Rita Wilson, were both in Australia in March when learned they had the virus, and they were treated at a hospital there before being released a few days later.)

“Ever since being diagnosed, I have been more like America’s dad than ever before,” Hanks said. “Since no one wants to be around me very long and I make people uncomfortable.”

He said he had been treated well in Australia, adding: “They use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit when they take your temperature. So when I come in and they say, ‘You’re 36,’ which seemed very bad to me, it turns out 36 is fine — 38 is bad. So basically it’s how Hollywood treats female actors.”

Before offering his gratitude to hospital staff, emergency medical workers and other helpers, Hanks told viewers that this “S.N.L.” broadcast might be unusual.

“Is it going to look a little different than what you’re used to?” he asked. “Yes. Will it be weird to see sketches without big sets and costumes? Sure. But will it make you laugh? Eh. It’s ‘S.N.L.’ There’ll be some good stuff, maybe one or two stinkers. You know the drill.”

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