Tom Hanks taunts Vegemite’s outrage in opening monologue ‘Saturday Night Live’

Tom Hanks gave Australia a couple of thanks and teased his recent Vegemite fiasco in his opening monologue for Saturday Night Live.

The actor, who is now back in the US USA After testing positive and receiving treatment for the coronavirus while in Australia, he hosted this weekend’s special edition of the comedy show from home.

Hanks kicked off the monologue with a greeting that Tiger King’s Carole Baskin made famous, saying, “Hello, great cats and kittens.”

Then he referred to himself as the “famous canary in the coronavirus coal mine” and joked, “Ever since I was diagnosed, I have been more like the father of the United States than ever. No one wants to be around me long and I make people uncomfortable. ” “

Hanks continued: “I was diagnosed with the coronavirus in March. I was first diagnosed in Australia. Now the people of Australia are fantastic in every way, but they use Celsius instead of Fahrenheit when they take the temperature, so when they come and say , ‘you’re 36’, which seemed very bad to me, but it turns out that 36 is good, 38 is bad.

“Basically, this is how Hollywood treats female actors,” he joked.

The actor, who said that he and his wife Rita Wilson are now “fine,” answered questions from the “audience members,” who were actually just him in costumes.

In one of them, Hanks pretended to be an Australian man who asked, “I have a question for Tommy Tim Tam, what is the correct way to get a daily dose of his Vegemite?”

The camera cut Hanks into his role as host, who answered the question with a smile before saying, “Enough of that.”

Hanks, who was isolated in Australia at the time, received thousands of responses from Australian fans who felt compelled to educate the actor about Vegemite’s correct ratio to toast.

Some of the comments include:

• “Oh Mister Hanks, even the bravest Australian wouldn’t put that much Vegemite on toast!”

• “Vegemite is not Nutella. You must spread it and mix it with the melted butter until it looks like a poorly maintained public toilet. That is the sweet spot.”

• “Life is like a tube of Vegemite. Don’t try everything at once.”

• “Corona won’t kill you, but that amount of Vegemite will!”

• “Maybe the crown affects your taste buds because that’s a lot of friend Vegemite.”

• “That amount of Vegemite would put anyone in the hospital. I developed a yeast infection just by looking at this image. (Also, best wishes for a speedy recovery”).

A few days later, Hanks made it clear that he had seen the comments and wrote on Instagram: “I have learned not to spread my Vegemite that thick.”

After his opening monologue, Hanks handed it over to the Saturday Night Live artists who had recorded sketches from their homes.

“Saturday doesn’t exist anymore,” said the actor. “Every day is today. And we are not really live, but we are doing everything we can to make this feel like the SNL you know and love.”