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Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade cover image

Jay Leno

Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade

CHAPTER

How to Be a Successful Writer on SNL

I was amazed how unsupportive other writers were. I remember once being in the hall at NBC, and I see these guys walk by with a cue card, literally the size of your backdrop with halo written on it. And because Bob Hope couldn't see, but what happened was they would drop the cue cards right in front of Bob and his hair would go. So we had to just edit because one behind. It's really funny. When you hosted SNL, you probably could have done any time, but it says he did an 86. You went on in February, 86.

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