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* [[The Worst Seat in the House]]: There was a sketch on an episode hosted by Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees where Jeter in drag and the women of ''SNL'' played the wives and girlfriends of the players...and sat in the nosebleed seats.

** Another sketch from the early 1990s had four friends attending a Van Morrison concert, with one of the characters being stuck behind the one person in the crowd who would rather stand out of her seat and dance, thus blocking the character's view of the stage. After several failed attempts at trying to look around the woman and asking her politely to sit, the character admits defeat and decides to be content with having to miss seeing most of the concert. The segment ends with another song beginning and ''everyone'' in the audience getting up from their seat to enjoy the music.

* [[Write Who You Know]]: A lot of ''SNL'''s recurring characters are actually based on people that either the writers or the cast members have encountered in life:

** Jay Pharoah's Principal Frye, a senile, wheezing high school principal who constantly interrupts assemblies with news of some kind of disaster happening at the school, is actually based on the principal from Pharoah's high school in Chesapeake, Virginia. The only thing that's changed is the name: the principal's name in real life is James while the character Jay Pharoah plays is named Daniel.

** Bill Hader's Stefon character is actually based on two people: a club promoter John Mulaney (the writer behind the Stefon segments on Weekend Update) met while in New York, and a barista Bill Hader met who actually looked, dressed, and spoke like Stefon.

** Julia Sweeney's adrogynous Pat character was actually based on a woman Julia saw who looked so much like a man that Sweeney questioned her gender.