If you could build the perfect Saturday Night Live episode, pulling from 50-plus years of sketches and performances, what would you choose?
That’s the premise of a new short-form series from SNL called The Rundown. The show, which will stream via Peacock, YouTube and SNL’s social channels, asks current and former castmembers to choose their favorite sketches and musical performances to build a fantasy episode on the show’s rundown board.
Up first is “Weekend Update” anchor Colin Jost, who discusses the importance of — and difficulty nailing — the cold open sketch. Watch the episode below.
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Jost notes that the cold open for SNL is often truly cold, because after a warm-up comic, “there is like 10 minutes of jazz” from the in-house band as the show waits to go live at 11:30 p.m. ET. “You
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