Hey, I love a teleprompter. I wrote about how good teleprompters are just two hours ago. But SNL doesn’t use them; they use cue cards, as they love to point out now and then in meta sketches. And they ...

Saturday Night Live superfans might already know this, but SNL’s cue-card guy, Wally Feresten, is on Instagram. He’s been doing cue cards at SNL since 1990, and now also manages the cue cards for Late ...

When Wally Feresten moved to New York City in 1990, he dreamed of being a comedy writer. Now 35 years later, he's perhaps the most important comedy writer alive, at least the most important comedy ...

Commercial auditions can be an absolute blast… until you forget your lines. As all experienced actors know, you cannot take your commercial copy into the audition room. But you can learn how to use a ...

Saturday Night Live is not an easy show to do. Even if you manage to do it you might get banned from the show. So there are some safety nets the show offers like cue cards. You might have noticed some ...

Reporting From NEW YORK — As a kid, Wally Feresten longed to write for television. He just never imagined that he’d be doing it with a felt marker on 14-by-22-inch pieces of recycled cardboard. For 25 ...

Noah talks to Scott Harris, senior writer for the Industry Standard magazine, about the life and career of Barney McNulty, who died earlier this week. McNulty is credited for inventing and perfecting ...