Doug Abeles

Those writers will then just stay in their office, maybe take a cat nap or maybe go, if they live nearby, maybe they'll run home, shower, whatever.

So mad.

come back to the office for the table read, which is later that afternoon with the host, where everybody, as again, is gathered, but now in a large conference room, the cast sitting around the conference table with Lorne Michaels at the head, sitting next to that week's host.

And then all the 40, 45 sketches for that week then get read by the cast at the table.

I was never invited to those dinners.

Sorry.

That speaks to my lowly status on the show.

I was not really in Lorne's inner circle that way.

But yes, that does.

And then it's like, yeah, it only adds to the writer's burden at this point.

But I don't know how they.

I don't know.

That is when the writing happens.

And I don't know.

I guess it just becomes like a muscle that you learn to

to use and you get used to the rhythm of the show you get used to the hours and um you know some i know some crazy stuff you know would make it onto the show that got written by you know punch drunk writers that sometimes maybe i don't know maybe that helps the creative process because you're so

At SNL, it's kind of brilliant that the office is configured.

Everyone has offices and typically they're shared and there will be...

there's a writer will share an office with a cast member or two, or it'll be two writers and a cast member or two cast members and a writer.

And that way it sort of allows for, for chemistry to all then,