Saturday Night Live is returning this weekend with remote sketches

Will Heath/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Saturday Night Live adheres to a couple of basic principles: the show is shot in front of a live studio audience at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and the cast works together to produce sketches for the weekly show. Since that’s impossible right now because of circumstances surrounding the pandemic, Saturday Night Live is going to try to make history by producing an entire episode remotely. This week’s show will feature sketches from cast members and a version of “Weekend Update,” which is hosted by head co-writers Colin Jost and Michael Che. It’s unclear how much of the show will be live or if everything will be prerecorded from cast members’ homes, according to MSNBC. A large portion of SNL includes digital sketches that are prerecorded ahead... Continue reading…