With things changing that quickly it can be hard to keep track of what exactly needed to be said each scene without a cue card.
Surprisingly, Lorne Michaels and the Saturday Night Live cast obliged and memorized their bits alongside Macaulay Culkin.
Culkin told Marc Maron on WTF With Marc Maron that’s actually a more difficult task than one might assume, as writers are constantly changing lines in the sketches right down to the wire.
Culkin struggled a bit at times without cue cards, but in all honesty, anyone watching clips from his appearance now wouldn’t think anything was out of the ordinary without knowing this information prior.