Many had hoped the red-carpet awards season, which creates hundreds of industry-related jobs, would mark a return to normalcy after the pandemic, the writers’ and actors’ strikes and threats of additional work stoppages last year.

And for those of you singing along at home, “Wicked” will be next in line, fervently hoping that writers branch voters give it an adapted screenplay nod and a path toward winning.

“Many artists, musicians and writers live here, and we felt like we had our slice of that,” he said.

Favorite guest hosts and musical guests return again and again, defining “SNL” as much as the regular cast or writers.

Still, it’s bizarre that a 50th-anniversary view of a show that shut out non-white and openly queer writers and performers for most of its existence wouldn’t cop to that.