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So yeah, it has to be fleshed out, typed up, turned in and all of that before like...

10 a.m.

11 a.m.

or something because the table read is at like 4 p.m.

or something that day on Wednesday so that's where like people spend the night looking for ideas and stuff because there's no real timeline you don't have to do that like Chris Rock used to come in at like noon and be out by like 9 or 10 kind of thing so it's

basically up to the individual but that was like the legacy of the show is like oh the late night craziness you know what I mean and the late night craziness but these days it's like you know it all depends on the person so like once I got married and started having kids and stuff like I used to start leaving like earlier because you know I just wanted to have more

less of a scrambled brain, I guess, in the mornings kind of thing.

Because, you know, all the single people, they can sleep all day until 2.30 if they want to kind of thing.

But people with responsibility, you got to get up in the morning.

So, yeah, Tuesday can be a long day.

Wednesday is long table read.

You know, we read like 45-ish, you know, 40, 45.

It used to be like 50 kind of sketches.

50 sketches?

Yeah, they only pick...

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