If you've ever gone to a taping of Saturday Night Live—a.k.a. "S&L"—you've witnessed the chaotic ballet of camera operators, grips and workers who make the show run behind-the-scenes. SNL has released ...

When Wally Feresten moved to New York City in 1990, he dreamed of being a comedy writer. Now 35 years later, he's perhaps the most important comedy writer alive, at least the most important comedy ...

For the past 10 years, Wally Feresten has been writing and holding up the cue cards on “Saturday Night Live.” Now he’s selling giant cue cards for any occasion through a side business called Cue Cards ...

Reporting From NEW YORK — As a kid, Wally Feresten longed to write for television. He just never imagined that he’d be doing it with a felt marker on 14-by-22-inch pieces of recycled cardboard. For 25 ...

Saturday Night Live has had an energy like no other show on TV–largely because it’s live. Every sketch is precariously balanced atop an undercurrent of chaos, as 10 million or more people enjoy ...

FALL RIVER — The dream is always the same: Wally Feresten wakes up late for work. He scrambles to his office, one of the most famous places in the world. It’s 11:25 p.m. — five minutes to show time.