Rudolph as Paris Hilton on SNL, above, and on vacation with her family. Polaris (top), Pacificcoastnews.com (bottom)

When Saturday Night Live performer Maya Rudolph and her family moved into their new apartment, nobody warned, "Don't let the bedbugs bite," according to the Associated Press.
 
A $450,000 lawsuit says that immediately after Rudolph and her boyfriend, director Paul Thomas Anderson, 30, and their one-year-old baby moved into a third-floor condominium loft apartment in SoHo, something began chewing on them at night.
 
"The plaintiffs were bitten over portions of their bodies by bedbugs," the court papers say. "Apparently unbeknown to plaintiffs, the premises were infested with bedbugs."
 
Rudolph, in her seventh season on the NBC variety show, and Anderson, director of Magnolia and Boogie Nights, had been told the apartment was "perfect" and was in a "first-class luxury" building, their court papers say.
 
The couple had signed a $13,500-a-month lease, paying two months rent and a month's security as well as a month's rent as a broker's commission, say papers filed Wednesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court.
 
After Rudolph and Anderson complained, an exterminator showed up on Oct. 17 and advised them to leave, at least for a few weeks, for the sake of their year-old baby. They left and never returned, said their lawyer Kenneth J. Glassman.
 
The case gives little comfort to those of us who live in New York, which has become a veritable bedbug hot zone (they’re so the new roaches). After all, if bedbugs are now feasting on the spicy blood of shockingly well-paid SNL cast members in their "perfect" apartments, we’re all at risk.
 
One can only hope that the case heads to court for a quick victory, sealed by Rudolph’s compelling closing argument delivered in a madcap skit involving a rotating selection of fine wigs and a cameo by Horatio Sans.
 
(Meanwhile, check out this “Open Letter to My Bedbugs” on Craigslist which is funnier than anything Lorne Michaels' laugh factory has produced in years.)
 
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