Wally Feresten has run cue cards for “Saturday Night Live” for 33 years, and for “Late Night with Seth Meyers” since it started in 2014.
Donate NowThe trick to being great at cue cards is not just about the handwriting – it’s also about being calm under pressure.
The card handler is also dealing with celebrities – some very nice, some less so – and has to be attuned to the performers’ comedic timing. Flip the cards too fast, and the performer misses the punchline. Too slow and you drag out the joke. Decades of this work have taxed Feresten’s body, dealing him bouts of tendonitis in his shoulders and elbows.
Seth Meyers, who left "SNL" after more than a decade to host “Late Night,” said he thought about it “for less than a second” before deciding to keep working with Feresten. He’s been with the show through the Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Bobby Moynihan, Alec-Baldwin-as-Trump, Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson eras. One of his all-time favorite guests was Betty White, who hosted "SNL" in 2010, when she was 88.
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