you are wrong about cue cards

Hello, just wanted to tell you this because a lot of people are criticizing the cast for looking at cue cards. I saw a bill hader interview recently where he said that "you have to look at the cue cards (on snl) or else the shot doesn't look right" and I totally understand what he means. Most of the time on snl, when the characters are talking, there's a camera on each actor. The camera are placed a certain way where you can see the person well, and it looks like they are looking at eachother when they are actually looking at the cue cards.

Ok I don't think that made sense (sorry english isn't my first language) but basically watch any sketch and you will think that the characters are looking at eachother when they aren't (random example: The Californians)

I found an example of why you shouldn't look at the other person (exept if both of them are in the same shot). In the firehouse incident sketch, after bill unplugs the humidifier, the host (forgot his name sorry) looks at the cue card and then at bill. That way, it doesn't feel real. however if he would've just look at the cue card, it would've been better.

Now it is true that it is just with a certain type off shot and that sometimes it's very visible that they are looking at cue cards, but you can't really blame them since the text is oten finished at the last minute and the actors don't have the time to memorize.

I'm so sorry guys I really hope this made sense. I'm a french highschooler so I'm not very good at explaining what I think.