What SNL is like behind the scenes amid the pandemic

Architectural Digest

Production designer Keith Ian Raywood says he and his colleagues have mostly had to meet virtually over Zoom instead of in person because of pandemic restrictions at 30 Rock. “The interesting thing,” he says, “is that because we have functioned for so long as an assembly-line like machine, we seem to have managed to manipulate the new system into being fairly close to our old one.” But because the coronavirus process is so cumbersome, they've had to design fewer set pieces. ALSO: Comedians weigh in on why Jim Carrey's Joe Biden SNL impression has been such a disappointment.