How to Create a Live Switch for Saturday Night Live

"We're not Saturday Night Live people. I mean, they know what they're doing. We don't know how to do it," he says. "I sent the cast home and replaced them all with stand-ins." He created a system for switching between cameras based on their positions next to dialogue. The first time Alan Alda read an episode of his new show you could hear him think: 'This guy pins needles in my body as he reads it' You always want to be able to help a little; direction is a good beacon for people.