Chris "Wally" Feresten is a cue card handler and supervisor known for his work on
Saturday Night Live. He also does cue cards for
Late Night with Seth Meyers and his private business, Cue Cards by Wally. Feresten began working at
Saturday Night Live after his brother, who worked at
SNL as a receptionist at the time, informed him there was a vacancy in the cue card department. His first appearance on camera was in 1991 during a monologue featuring Steve Martin. Feresten had his first spoken lines on the show in 1993 during an Alec Baldwin monologue. Since 2014, Feresten has also been a cue card handler for
Late Night with Seth Meyers. His increasing frequency of spoken lines and his popularity with the audience has caused guest John Oliver to joke that Feresten is staging "a slow-motion coup". In 2020, Feresten began Cue Cards by Wally, a private business wherein he creates personalized cue cards, mostly for
SNL fans. He started the business while
SNL was doing remote-recorded episodes and, thus, his cue cards were not needed.
Click here for the highlight of Wally presenting his cue cards to Josh:
https://youtu.be/14RJpye2Oaw
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