Joe Biden won the presidency, but Jim Carrey and "SNL" have lost big so far in 2020.

In October, "Saturday Night Live" returned to Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Center in New York ready to bring some normalcy back to a 2020 that has been traumatic and taxing. With a masked audience and political opening sketches, "SNL" and producer Lorne Michaels are trying to bring the funny back to our lives. If only they were succeeding.

So far in its 46th season, which has run for the last six weeks without break, "SNL" has been cathartic but hollow, occasionally funny but rarely hilarious, topical without being relevant and loud without saying much of anything. With a pandemic leaving Americans craving humor and relief, a presidential election to parody and a strong series of hosts, why has the quality of the new season of "SNL" failed so miserably?

The comedian's impression of Biden isn't so much a character as a costume. His Biden wears the aforementioned aviators, makes a lot of finger guns and that's pretty much it. Carrey slips into other characters frequently: A touch of "The Mask" here, a pinch of Clint Eastwood there. Biden has a distinctive voice, but Carrey mostly growls at the camera.

Carrey is a symptom of a larger issue: Michaels and the writers don't seem to trust the cast, considering how many celebrity ringers continually make appearances. Alec Baldwin has been showing up to play President Donald Trump in cold opens for so long that we forget it's not par for the 45-year course for big stars to jump into the fray to portray big names. But after Baldwin came a parade of famous faces as the Democratic primary contenders, including Maya Rudolph, who continued playing Vice President-elect Kamala Harris after she joined Biden's ticket.

The cast members that actually manage to make it into sketches are usually the old standbys: Kate McKinnon and Kenan Thompson remain as prominent as ever, as do Pete Davidson and Beck Bennett (last year's newbies Chole Fineman and Bowen Yang have made it into a decent number of sketches). Audiences would be hard pressed to pick out new cast members in a sketch, let alone name them.

SNL" is at its best when it finds a good cast ready to confront the current moment in American history. In 2020, it just doesn't have that.

2020 has claimed another celebrity couple who we thought would never split: Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis.

The “Booksmart” director and “Saturday Night Live” alum have ended their engagement after nine years together, multiple outlets confirmed, with the two reportedly going their separate ways at the beginning of the year.

“It’s been amicable and they’ve transitioned into a great co-parenting routine,” an unnamed source told People. “The children are the priority and the heart of the family’s relationship.”

Wilde and Sudeikis share two children together: son Otis, 6, and daughter Daisy, 4.

A second source told Entertainment Tonight that the former couple moved out of their Brooklyn, New York, apartment, which they shared together for years, sometime in 2019 and now both reside in Los Angeles.


Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis are calling it quits after nine years together. (Photo: Ethan Miller via Getty Images)They were last seen in public together in September, enjoying a beach day in Malibu, California, splashing among the waves.

The day after the split was announced, Wilde shared a photo of her children on Instagram Stories during a family outing on Sunday.

“My everythings,” she wrote alongside the pic of the two kids leaning against a fence while wearing face coverings.
(Photo: Instagram)Shortly after meeting at an “SNL” afterparty in 2011, the two started dating, with Wilde later saying that she fell “blissfully, hopelessly, wildly in love” with Sudeikis.

“I actually came off looking a little cooler than I really am because I had heard through the grapevine, through mutual friends who weren’t exactly her best girlfriends, who would report back, ‘Oh you know, I think she’s dating someone,’” Sudeikis said in 2017 of their courtship. “So I didn’t make any moves. I was just very, very busy with other things. And next thing you know, I stopped being busy, she stopped dating someone, and then it was off to the races.”

As per Wilde’s recollection of events, he came up to her at the party with the pickup line: “Whatever you are looking for, you don’t need it.”

“He played it really cool,” she recalled on The Howard Stern Show in 2016, revealing Sudeikis didn’t text for a month after he got her number. “I was on the hook.”