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Every Cue Card Appearance on SNL (I had to put it on Rumble again because of 7(!) copyright claims!)

The two recent Wally Feresten appearances made me wonder how many times the cue cards have appeared on air. The cue card person didn't appear in the closing credits prior to 1992, so this is the list I came up with, using SNLArchives.Net 's list of appearances by:

  • Al Siegel - Cue Card guy from season 1 through at least season 9.
  • Eileen O'Brien - Secondary Cue Card person from season 9 to season 11 (she has a documentary short where she talks about her time at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCl7ZTiOLTI , and I also heard a Letterman themed podcast where she was interviewed and said she did a lot of secondary cue cards on Letterman, frequently holding the cards for Larry "Bud" Melman).
  • Tony Mendez - cue cards on SNL from 1984 to 1993 (per his New York Times obituary article), when he switched to being David Letterman's primary cue card guy, one of Dave's cast of unusual characters as Tony "Inky" Mendez.
  • Wally Feresten - primary cue card guy since November 1993 and owner of New York City Q-Cards, Inc. where he hires and trains other cue card workers to support the cue card needs of shows that air in the New York City area.
  • two sketches where writers Dennis McNicholas and Gary Richardson pretended to be the cue card holders.
  • "the famous brodcasters school of cue card reading", a full sketch.

There are 3 categories of cue card appearances on SNL:

  1. Where the cue card is part of the joke.
  2. Where the sketch is about recording something, so they figure they can put the cue card person right on camera and it won't seem too weird.
  3. Accidental appearances, often when they zoom out before going to commercial.

I've marked #2 & #3 with a red circle to help identify them.

Perhaps you might also be interested in my previous rumble posting, a full 3 hours of Lorne Michaels SNL appearances. https://rumble.com/v75q6ui-lorne-michaels-snl-supercut.html

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u/ConsistentAmount4 — 11 hours ago
▲ 67 r/LiveFromNewYork

I originally made this about 5 years ago, there's been talk about this again so I thought I'd update it. A lot of the leaderboards treat every LFNY the same, whereas I think Chevy Chase doing it solo 34 times is a little bit different than the 12 people on stage all saying it together, no offense to the people who are members of the cast in that time period. If you disagree with me then ignore this list I guess.

The full animated racing chart is at https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/8108542/ if you want to see some people briefly appearing in the early days.

Clearly the best way to lead the LFNY lists is to play the president, which makes Kate McKinnon even more impressive, all she had was presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, she had to get there by playing Sessions and Mueller and Guiliani and Graham and Conway and Warren and Fauci and Wilber Ross and Laura Ingraham.

I also found Tim Meadows appearance surprising, I know he had the long career, but 17.2 LFNYs on the back of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson and the Ladies Man is sure doing it the hard way.

Also congrats to Kenan, who moved ahead of Jason Sudeikis with his solo LFNY as Charles Barkley two episodes ago.

u/ConsistentAmount4 — 14 days ago
▲ 123 r/crushcrush

As a long time player, I already had most of the girls unlocked so it's great to just bank tickets and know that when the next one comes, I can purchase her immediately and not have to stress about whether I was going to finish the PES.

u/ConsistentAmount4 — 18 days ago