Amy Schumer’s 3-year-old was hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus final week whereas she ready to host “Saturday Night Live,” the comic stated Sunday.
The Manhattan-born comedian stated she missed Thursday’s rehearsal for the NBC sketch comedy present when son Gene was admitted to an emergency room amid a surge in instances of the virus that largely impacts younger youngsters.
“I got to be with him the whole day at the hospital and the beautiful humans at [‘Saturday Night Live’] couldn’t have been more supportive,” Schumer, 41, wrote in an Instagram put up.
“My son is home and better. The reason this show is so fun to do isn’t actually the performance or the show itself. It’s getting to spend time with the people there. The cast and the writers of course but the people who are behind the scenes making it run smooth are my favorite.”
Describing final week as “the hardest” of her life, Schumer thanked the “SNL” workers and “the doctors and nurses who helped us.”
Commonly known as RSV, the virus usually causes cold-like signs in adults however could be life-threatening for infants. The United States information about 2.1 million outpatient instances of RSV yearly, based on the CDC, however the surge in infections started sooner than regular this yr.
Gene is the one little one of Schumer and chef Chris Fischer, whom she married in 2018.
Saturday’s episode of “SNL” marked the third time Schumer — a second cousin of Sen. Chuck Schumer — hosted the present, together with her earlier gigs coming in 2015 and 2018.
Her monologue included a jab at rapper Kanye West, who misplaced partnerships with Adidas and different manufacturers over a collection of anti-Semitic feedback. Her joke about West got here when she spoke about her husband’s prognosis with autism spectrum dysfunction.
“It used to be called Asperger’s but then they found out, this is true, that Dr. Asperger had, like, Nazi ties, Kanye,” Schumer quipped.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”