I wrote about how good teleprompters are just two hours ago. But SNL doesn’t use them; they use cue cards, as they love to point out now and then in meta sketches. And they show their cue card ...

By Richard Sandomir Tony Mendez, who was in charge of cue cards for “Late Show With David ... where Mr. Letterman taped his program. But Mr. Mendez’s time at “Late Show” ended in October ...

And then, no one knows what they're doing. So cue cards are always kind of foolproof that way. Where it's like they can fit anywhere and they're not gonna like, go out. Another reason SNL uses cue ...