SNL writers were revising the season’s first cold open right up to the last minute after President Donald Trump’s positive COVID test tossed all plans into the air
– Michaels says the ever-changing political happenings keeps the show from over-preparation. “Most often we don’t even attempt it until Friday,” Michaels says of the sketch-making. “Fortunately, the cast are good at it and can adapt.”
Michaels concedes that the show’s return to a live audience after last spring’s remote, mostly pre-taped bits, was crucial. “I think it was all I talked about all summer and leading up to it was I need an audience,” Michaels says. “Because we’re taking big swings and they’re hard jokes, when you don’t hear any sound, it throws the timing off. The thing that the audience does is it’s the plug that makes the circuit work.”
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