Saturday Night Live is legendary for its intense schedule and chaotic timeline. The brave souls working on the show pitch, write, re-pitch, rehearse, build sets, make costumes, do a full runthrough in front of a live audience and then go live for ninety minutes of television in front of a separate audience. It all starts on Monday morning when they meet the guest host for the first time, and it ends when they go live on Saturday night, whether they’re ready or not.
The cast and crew, even though they complain about it, have adhered to the same basic rigorous schedule for more than fifty years in order to make sure everything gets done, but now and again, forces outside their control get in the way. That happened this week when The United States bombed Iran in the early morning hours on Saturday. Suddenly, the original sketch they prepared for the show’s cold opening, which involved President Trump delivering the State Of The Union, didn’t make sense anymore. It obviously didn’t mention bombing Iran at all since that hadn’t happened when it was written.
