Creating Saturday Night Live: Cue Cards - SNL

It's a shame that so many people that make the shows and music possible, don't receive the same amount of love. It's dope that they gave this dude a little love and some exposure.

Ye but also it made a good video

Alexander Lawrence I mean there job is to hold cue cards in pretty sure if they were in it for the love and exposure they would wanna be an actor

The making of this show gives me severe anxiety

If i worked in that department I’d be so tempted to have a celebrities autograph cue cards with lines on it! Frame that shit! Can you imagine the cue card that said “more cowbell” with Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell’s autograph framed in your apartment?!?

My dads friend works for NBC and when I was young we got to go to the studios a lot. The one thing that was really pushed was just how much of a code their was and that rules were everything at all times. If anyone tried to do that or get an autograph they would be let go right away!

I would love to buy a few of these.

To the people complaining, they don't get a lot of time to memorize everything. Doesn't make them bad actors, it makes them human.

+Joseph Salama Then how is it that many of the cast members can and could read cue cards without appearing to, like the entire original cast, Eddie Murphy, Dana Carvey, Hartman, Hooks, Ferrell, Shannon, to name a few, but most of the 21st Century hires can't seem to manage it. Gee, can't imagine why that is. Hey, maybe it's a skill one learns if one gives a shit. Nah, that can't be it.BTW, thanks, man! If you'll call me a moron and a retard , as well, I can redeem my cranky youtuber coupon for a foo...

+Texas Chainsaw Jesus HA! you sound like such a fun person to hang out with. don't watch the show if reading is "taking you out of the sketch". you should try to imagine how difficult it is to memorize lines that were handed to you less than 48 hours ago and you have to do it in front of the entire country. and then your performance is evaluated by idiots like you.. imagine how hard that would be.

Wow! I legitimately thought that SNL had teleprompters! The fact that they are cue cards makes the show so much cooler!!

Justin Linville i completely agree, its a cop-out to keep these jobs. There are many solutions to automate this work. You could print the cue-cards and they would be more readable. They surely can afford a plotter to print them on cardboard. They can also have large tablets displaying the texts. All that can be easily done by one person, and you would just need the others part time to hold the cards. And i can believe teleprompter technology is still in the monochrome, one font, scrolling mode only er...

+Jonathan Lumbreras, it's dumb really. They make thousands of dollars and yet they use a cue cards? It's like fuck you money for them that they have money to just pay guy do shit.

That bill hader bit is always hilarious 😅

Bill Hader ALWAYS breaks because of John Mulaney..."MTV's Dan Cortese" ANYONE?!

I always loved it when Stefon couldn't hold it together, but that one was great, when he had to say three clubs with "MTV's Dan Cortese" in all three and he had already left and come back for a guest appearance. I'm gonna have to get that file out and watch it again. :-)

One reason that made Bill laugh so much is because Mulaney misspelled Cortese as "Cortez"

I really loved learning this about the show.

jack bone It was featured on my trending tab NOT recommended!

i could smell the ink half way thru the video

Sniffing markers is why he stayed doing. Its his high.

Yeah really the whole set must be high on fumes 💨🤘

Hey it’s Streeter, I remember watching him on College Humor and now he’s writing for SNL

+DreamilyReal Streeter is one of the head writers! Sarah was part of the SNL writing team and wrote some of the huge ones like "back home ballers" but she left a few years ago. Pat Cassels works w Samantha Bee I think. Dan Gurewitch is on Jon Oliver. I'm so proud of all of them!!

I recognised him immediately! He used to bring me so much joy 10 years ago!!! Lol!!