thank you, surviving crew members. tonight, saturday night live planned to do our big christmas show and induct a new member into the five-timers club, but covid came early this year. so in the interest of safety, we do not have an audience, and we sent home our cast and most of our crew. and i came here from california. if you think i was going to fly 3,000 miles and not be on tv, you ve got another thing coming. isn t that right, tina? yes, i am here. this is not the smallest audience i have ever performed pfr, because i have done improv in a macy s. the musical guest s performance was also canceled. but she promised to be back. quite the development. there were people waiting in line for a while outside that had to be turned away. all right. thanks for watching msnbc reports. velshi starts roup.
traced to big sporting events. that s not my concern. my bigger concern would be based on how case numbers and hospitalizations are looking is people gathering indoors around the country for any reason, including super bowl parties, particularly if not everybody there is boosted or you re not using rapid tests right before you gather. those are both ways to keep people safe, but if one or both of those is not true, there could be some danger there. zpr and we know around 95% of nfl players are vaccinated. certainly is concerning. zachary benny, thanks for being here. absolutely, thank you. omicron also disrupting things right here at 30 rock, where saturday night live put on a bare bones show. limited crew, no audience. instead of their big christmas episode, tina hanks, paul rudd, and tina fey tossed to sketches taped earlier in the show as well as some old classics. thank you, i m tom hanks.