“In the history of the show we’ve only had to shoot the cue-card guy twice.”
-Lorne Michaels in a Wall Street Journal profile of Saturday Night Live’s cue card guy Wally Feresten, who’s been with the show since 1990. The profile gives a behind-the-scenes look at SNL from an unusual perspective, and it delivers logical answers to questions like “Why does SNL still use cue cards?”, “Why not just use a teleprompter?”, and “Seriously, it’s 2012. What gives?”
