{"id":20,"date":"2006-08-06T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/blog\/2006\/08\/06\/television-too-tough-for-snl-hosts\/"},"modified":"2011-03-27T12:55:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T17:55:18","slug":"too-tough-for-snl-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/2006\/08\/06\/too-tough-for-snl-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2610 Too Tough For SNL Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could somebody please explain to me why almost every <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> host is always looking off set when they perform in a sketch?  It&#8217;s horribly obvious they are looking at the cue cards, and sometimes, they don&#8217;t look anywhere BUT the cue cards.<\/p>\n<p>They are supposed to be professional actors who have to memorise lines, rehearse, and so on just the same as the SNL cast do.  Why then do they all <strong>constantly and continuously<\/strong> read the cue cards?  Do they not remember ANY of their lines?  Is it that they are unable to learn them in only a week?  Did they not go to rehearsals?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why they are so dependant on the cue cards when they are doing exactly what they are trained for: acting.  Perhaps the rigors of a weekly sketch comedy show are tougher than those of a long movie production.  If this is the case, then going in the other direction (sketch comedy to movies) should be a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/explanation\/\" rel=\"tag\">Explanation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/television\/\" rel=\"tag\">Television<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/tag\/unsolved\/\" rel=\"tag\">Unsolved<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could somebody please explain to me why almost every Saturday Night Live host is always looking off set when they perform in a sketch? It&#8217;s horribly obvious they are looking at the cue cards, and sometimes, they don&#8217;t look anywhere BUT the cue cards. They are supposed to be professional actors who have to memorise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10,7],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-explanation","tag-television","tag-unsolved"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}