cue card

“We’ve used that cue card, like, 15 times.”

With Meyers’ nods to the writers, exchanges with cue card guy Wally Feresten, an ability to turn interviews into conversations and a tendency to laugh incredulously at his own material or delivery, “Late Night,” like Ferguson’s late-lamented “Late Late Show,” has an air of being anti-professional and intimate, of being something happening in real time, made by humans.

Magill even released a video in which she looked like a hostage being forced to mouth words from a cue card.

Two employees told the magazine that they remember witnessing Fallon scold a crew member holding a cue card during an episode that featured Seinfeld — and that the comic told the host to apologize.

I have that cue card in my car.