Here's the grueling and intense process it takes to put together one episode of 'SNL'
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When you work for "Saturday Night Live," your work schedule tends to be kind of crazy.
The "Saturday Night Live" schedule has been in place for 40 years, and while a weekly live sketch show can be hit-or-miss, this routine has produced some comedy gold.
A new "Saturday Night Live" Exhibition, fittingly in New York City, celebrates the hard work that goes into creating the live comedy institution. It includes costumes, photos, and even recreations of sets made by the same people who designed the originals.
The exhibit is broken up day by day, to give a precise feeling of what exactly happens each day throughout the six-day "SNL" work week.
Using artifacts from the exhibit, here is a breakdown of a week at "Saturday Night Live."
On Monday, writers and cast members meet to pitch jokes and toss around story ideas.
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Tuesday is a writing day.
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Wednesday is when everybody gathers around to read through sketches.
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According to the museum, the meeting doesn't end until every single sketch is read. Typically, the meeting is "roughly" three hours long.
On Thursday, sets start getting built.
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Friday is marked by rehearsals and rewrites.
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The sets are finally shipped over from Brooklyn. They can be no taller than 9 feet in order to fit into the freight elevators at 30 Rock.
Saturday is the day of the big show, but the work isn't over just yet.
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At 8:00 p.m., a crowd sits to watch a dress rehearsal for the show. This gives time for any last minute changes to be made, and any sketches that don't get laughs will get cut before the final show at 11:30 p.m.
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According to a sign in the museum, back in the 1970s, "[John] Belushi and [Dan] Aykroyd threw an even more exclusive after-after-party for the favored few in a downtown dive bar on Hudson and Dominick streets they took over and renamed the Blues Bar. Musicians jammed. Belushi and Aykroyd joined them on stage. Keith Richards was said to have tended bar. And no one went home until late the next morning."
Saturday Night Live: The Exhibition is now on display at Premier Exhibitions in Manhattan at 417 5th Avenue between 37th & 38th.
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