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Added on 12/12/09 by Betsy
 After spending a pre-dawn December morning on a freezing New York City sidewalk, I have some tips for scoring those elusive SNL tickets.
Before I go into the standby ticket process, I will tell you about the normal ticket process. In the month of August you send an email to snltickets@nbcuni.com which enters you into a drawing. After going down to NBC studios in Rockafeller center and talking to the pages who manage the ticket distribution for standbys, your chances of getting tickets through this method are about 5%.
If you are lucky enough to get tickets through the drawing you will be notified in September. There are 2 different shows every Saturday night, one is the dress rehearsal which is held around 8:30 and of course the live taping. You will be issued tickets for one of these if you are lucky enough to get tickets at all. You have no control over the date of the show you will attend and they will only give you 2 tickets, which sucks if you have more than one friend.If you have not heard and September has passed then you have no chance of getting tickets for that year, in other words tickets for 2009-2010 season have already been distributed and are no longer available.
However that weird method of distribution which. . . (read post) |
