An interview with SNL writer Bryan Tucker.

One thing people still don’t seem to get is that the show is actually live and on Saturdays – just like the title says (when I got the job my mom asked me what night the show came on), Things are literally being rewritten and changed until minutes before they get on the air – usually not radically changed, but definitely tweaked. The whole show is put together in about four days, and it’s frustrating when people compare SNL to other comedy shows that have the tremendous advantage of pre-taping things and controlling every aspect of what ultimately gets produced.

And here is part two.