Watch fully-recovered Tom Hanks host 'SNL At Home' from his kitchen

This is the world we live in now—everything is filmed at home and no one knows what day it is. At this point, we're used to watching Jimmy Fallon and his kids host The Tonight Show in the living room, but when Saturday Night Live announced its ensemble cast was going to broadcast an at-home edition, that was a bit of a head-scratcher. Well, turns out all you need to put on SNL is a webcam, funny people and some star power like America's Dad, Tom Hanks.Sure, it wasn’t really filmed on Saturday night ("There's no such things as 'Saturdays' anymore—every day is just 'today' according to Hanks' sage words), and it wasn’t exactly live, but that meant everyone from Adam Sandler to Alec Baldwin to Larry David could make appearances. This is seriously the golden age of access to celebrities (if nothing else).Tom Hanks, who recently returned to the United States after recovering from COVID-19 with wife Rita Wilson in Australia, hosted the show from his swanky kitchen wearing real pants for the first time since March 11th. Of course, he proved to be "more America's Dad than ever" by performing a monologue that spoke to the times with a dash of levity and a helping of humour. He poked fun at the online fury he started earlier this year over the proper way to eat Vegemite (you spread it on toast! There is no other way!) and appropriately lowered expectations for this at-home show: “Will it make you laugh? Ugh, you know, it’s SNL. There’ll be some good stuff, maybe one or two stinkers, you know the drill.”

Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Hanks! #SNLAtHome pic.twitter.com/jCmEnBjSzq

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) April 12, 2020

The good stuff included a sketch performed by Mikey Day where he poked fun at online gamers on Twitch who live-stream their attempts at Call Of Duty—the perfect at-home sketch for our times. Then there was the Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon-led piece where a work meeting on Zoom gets relatably awkward when a few members of the older generation doesn't seem to get the nuances of the app. Pete Davidson also made a solo appearance to drop a Drake parody single bragging about his $2,000.Then there was the good ol’ Weekend Update gang. Colin Jost and Michael Che, who, even though they were delivering the "news" via Zoom, somehow still managed to get Alec Baldwin to appear as Trump. Alec, as we’ve seen recently, is quarantined with his kids and has another one on the way, so he must have relished a moment or two of silly time with the adults. He poked fun at Trump’s millions of gaffes and mis-pronunciations by referring to coronavirus as “Covfefe-19.”[video_embed id='1930881']RELATED: Tom Hanks & Rita Wilson are back in the U.S.[/video_embed]The show ended on a sombre note to pay homage to SNL maestro Hal Willner who passed this week from symptoms suspected to be COVID-19. Past and present cast mates like Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph and more spoke about their love for Hal, who was friends with Miles Davis, and then sang “A Perfect Day” by Lou Reed in his honour.“We are going to miss you just so damn much—you were just a great man,” Adam Sandler lamented. “We appreciate everything you did for us pal. We love ya, Hal. We’re gonna miss you so much.”*Sniff* If that isn’t the perfect episode of SNL to honour the times that we’re living in now, we don’t know what is.[video_embed id='1937552']BEFORE YOU GO: The ‘Sex and the City’ cast reunited for a great cause[/video_embed]