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how much does an episode of SNL cost do
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you want to guess Dana I would say $3
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million3 million Jesus Christ okay let's
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see a single episode of SNL costs $4
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million which comes out to about $100
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million a season how much does a host
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get three no $5,000 usually 5,000 that's
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it it's just an honorarium you get paid
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for the exposure but those sets and 300
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people the crew and all the different
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departments how about the uh real estate
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to be in Rockefeller Plaza with there's
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the reason there's not a lot of snls
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around it's so freaking hard and then
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you have to be topnotch with a wig and a
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look and they have to have everything at
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their fingertips they put it all
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together under extraordinary pressure
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the fact that it's live like that's what
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I love about it for me if a sketch isn't
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working I find that interesting and kind
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of funny I'm not rooting for it but
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you're getting to see something not work
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quite the way they want and believe me
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I've been in a few of those turys
