People’s Sexiest Man Alive to host show for fifth timeNBC cites ‘abundance of caution’ behind Covid moveThe
Actor Paul Rudd, People’s Sexiest Man Alive of 2021, was set to be inducted into the vaunted Five-Timers Club on
Saturday Night Live but the surging Omicron variant of the
Coronavirus meant there would not be a live audience to see it happen.
The long-running sketch
comedy show announced on
Social Media on Saturday afternoon that the night’s episode would tape without a live audience and with only limited cast and crew, “due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution”.