Why Does Saturday Night Live Still Use Cue Cards? Bowen Yang Breaks Down The Three Major Reasons

Ironically, Fallon still insists on using handwritten cue cards on The Tonight Show every night, a practice he became used to as an SNL cast member in the early 2000s.

This likely won’t change, either, and SNL cast member Bowen Yang explained why.

One remembers Jimmy Fallon’s teleprompter breaking live while he hosted the Golden Globes in 2017, and how this could’ve been avoided if cue cards were used.