One Line Jokes

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Karen Bliss: Saturday Night Live: Ever Wonder How it’s Shot? (TV Squad)

Have you always wondered how _Saturday Night Live_ pulls off multiple sketches
and a two-song performance by a musical guest in 90 minutes in real time?
Tickets are hard to come by, so when a friend won a charity bid for a pair (a
somewhat insane $2,000), I was excited to go and curious how the show unfolds
when you’re in the audience. The host was _Moneyball_/_Superbad_ actor Jonah
Hill and musical guest The Shins, but I didn’t care who it was.

Ticket holders were asked to arrive at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, home of NBC
Studios, by 10:30 p.m., an hour before showtime. As people were directed to
the appropriate lineup according to how they got tickets, Tom Hanks and wife
Rita Wilson were whisked by, a strong clue the Oscar-winning actor just might
be a “surprise guest.”

Having paid so much for our tickets, it seemed we were given some special
treatment, as a friendly young man took us up to our seats, ahead of many
people, to studio 8H. The attached yellow and blue chairs were like those in a
hockey arena. Strips of masking tape were over each with the destined
occupant’s …

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Stewart Francis – One Liners