Watch Tom Hanks’ Monologue from Saturday Night Live‘s Home Quarantine Episode

Saturday Night Live returned with a new episode tonight, and it’s one of the most unique ones in the show’s 45 year history. It took a page from the late night talk shows, which haven’t ceased production despite the pandemic, and built a new episode out of footage shot at each cast member’s homes. And it even had a surprise host: Tom Hanks, aka “America’s Dad,” aka the self-pronounced “celebrity canary in the coal mine” for COVID-19. Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, are safe at home after catching the virus in Australia in March, and his real-life recovery from it lends a bit more weight to the inspiring words that close out his monologue. Before then, though, it’s a fairly typical SNL monologue, despite being shot in his kitchen and having obvious edits—it even briefly does the audience Q&A bit that the show leans on a little too much. Instead of cast members or writers, though, the questions are all from Hanks sporting a different hat and fake accent. It was a familiar but offbeat start to perhaps the weirdest episode of SNL ever, and you can watch it below.