Paul Rudd tries to keep baby-crazy grandmas Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant on-message
The SNL cast and crew managed to get three pre-taped sketches in the can before shutting down

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Well, that happened. With the much-anticipated, Paul Rudd-hosted final Saturday Night Live of 2021 being turned into a sweatily but admirably scraped together clip show thanks to a reported major COVID outbreak at 30 Rock, there was precious little new material on offer last night. Luckily for viewers not looking forward to a repeat of a so-so 2012 holiday pageant sketch starring Martin Short and Paul McCartney or that time host Ryan Gosling dressed up as a naughty Christmas elf (or “Dick In A Box,” for the thousandth time), Rudd and company had managed to complete three filmed sketches before almost everybody got sent home.