Maya Rudolph on the SNL season premiere debate cold open: "We never ran that sketch until it was live"

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"Believe it or not, everything was slower, it was harder to get things to cards," Rudolph said on Watch What Happens Live, referring to SNL's new coronavirus protocols. "I didn’t really get my lines until air. We never ran that sketch until it was live." She added: "Every single bit of information is coming in so fast ... that even a show like SNL, that gives you everything up until the last minute, didn’t even have the time to build half the sets they probably wanted to build to cover all of this insanity. So, it was pretty wild and SNL is such an amazing place and the people that run it, the crew that makes that show tick, I can’t believe what they were able to accomplish on Saturday and it was incredibly difficult because of the COVID protocol." ALSO: SNL's debate cold open was worse than the actual debate.