Like many of us last year, Saturday Night Live had to figure out how to move forward in the most unlikely scenarios.
But unlike many of us over the past year, this has meant figuring out how to safely make a live comedy show with a huge cast at a time when things were neither fun nor safe for large crowds. A new line of featurettes gives a taste of what it was like behind the scenes as the long-running variety show tackled its greatest challenge of all time: a global pandemic.
E! News gives an exclusive first look at the campaign at a glance Lorne Michaels“Talk to the cast during their first personal table reading, after trying a few home episodes.
“You may have noticed that this is a little scary,” he says behind a mask to a room full of other masked people, all sitting at separate tables. “Everything will be different – where we make our decisions, how we make our decisions, what the samples look like, and then when you’re on the air it will feel pretty much the same.”
