Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — With two Academy Awards, and more nominations than he can shake those trophies at, you’d figure no performing would rattle Tom Hanks, but you’d be wrong. It’s doing Saturday Night Live.

Hanks earned positive reviews for his most recent — ninth — turn hosting the show this past weekend, which saw him open by spoofing both presidential debate moderator Chris Wallace from Fox News and playing a sure-to-be Halloween cosplayed character called David S. Pumpkins — in a sketch he admitted to not understanding.

As he told Kelly Ripa and her guest Live with Kelly Co-host Michael Buble, the work behind the scenes of the comedy show is no joke. “It’s petrifying, because…you have this vision of everyone you have ever known in your life sitting in their living room watching it…That’s crazy.”  

Ripa joked that the debate itself was so bizarre that it basically “wrote itself” as a sketch. “It truly did,” Hanks agreed. “It was a bonanza, man. Between ‘bad hombre’ and ‘nasty woman,’ I think all the world was like, ‘I’m just gonna wait and see what Alec does.'”

The opening sketch once again pitted Alec Baldwin’s Donald Trump against Kate McKinnon’s Hillary Clinton. 

Hanks added, that for all the work, “There’s nothing like it in the world.”

The hard work paid off: the Oct. 22 edition of Saturday Night Live delivered season-high ratings, and the best results for any October telecast in eight years, NBC touted.

Hanks will be seen next in Inferno, his third go ’round as The Da Vinci Code hero Robert Langdon; the movie opens Friday.