Saturday Night Live's cue card supervisor, Wally Feresten, gives a behind-the-scenes look at an integral and iconic part of the show's production. Tune in to SNL Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET/8:30 p.m. PT on NBC! #SNL Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Get more SNL: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv...
There’s something fantastic about this. Sure, it would probably be easier and faster and much more efficient if they used TelePrompTers and other similar devices, but in doing so, what is lost? If nothing else, it’s the personal touch, and in a world that strives for efficiency and productivity - at times at the cost of human interactions - this simple holding on to the past is perhaps one of the many reasons why SNL has lasted the test of time.
Maybe. Maybe not. But I’d like to think so.
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