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To enter the Saturday Night Live ticket lottery for the upcoming 2007-2008 season send an email in the month of August only to snltickets@nbcuni.com. Please include all contact information and do not request a specific date. If you are selected, you will receive two tickets to a random show date and time. You may only send one email per household and all audience members must be at least 16 years of age. Please note that entering the lottery does not guarantee tickets, and you will only be notified in the event that you are chosen.

Stand-by tickets are distributed at 7am on the 49th st. side of 30 Rockefeller Plaza on the mornings of the tapings. You may choose a stand-by ticket for either the 8pm dress rehearsal or the 11:30pm live taping. Aside from minimal, necessary breaks, all stand-by line members must remain in line at all times. Stand-by tickets are limited to one per person and are issued on a first-come, first-served basis. NBC staff reserves the right to revoke or not issue any ticket to anyone in line if proper procedures are not followed. Please arrive no later than 7:15pm for the dress rehearsal or 10:45pm for the live show. A stand-by ticket does not guarantee admission and no one under the age of 16 will be admitted.

........Ive been watching it on TV since the beginning. Now I want to be one of those goofy people in the studio audience. Maybe I can go see Letterman & Regis at the same time!

I’m a die hard snl fan. I really want to go see a show, even if I do have bad seats where I can barely see the stage. I’d think the presents of being there would be enough for me.

I went this year, the host was Paul Giomatti and the musical guest was Ludacris with Sum41 backing him up. I actually got tickets through an insider at the last minute—I didn’t know I was going until 4:00 that afternoon (my ‘in’ actually apologized for not being able to swing backstage passes, which ended up being lucky). I was almost ‘removed’ by security because I was a little too loud (or just obnoxious) during a commercial break (I hollered to the band). So the story around the show was more eventful than the actual show.

I was dissappointed because you really couldn’t see very much from the audience (upper deck, where most people were). On the floor you might have a better view, but even at that, the show wasn’t very funny. I was a rabid SNL fan in the late-80’s, when Mike Myers, Dana Darvey and Phil Hartman were big. That was the problem—it could never have lived up to how cool I thought it would have been back in the day. If I had to wait for hours in line downstairs (we didn’t) it would not have been worth it.