In theory, there are three ways to get tickets to Saturday Night Live:

1) Be close personal friends with creator Lorne Michaels or a member of the cast or crew! I am not. But if any of you are reading this, hit me up. I'm cool. (I'm not.)

2) Enter the ticket lottery! You can email NBC any time during the month of August and ask for tickets. If you're lucky, they'll assign you tickets for a random show during the upcoming season. I was not lucky.

3) Line up outside 30 Rock on Friday night, receive a numbered standby ticket, and pray that your number is low enough to get you in! Ding ding ding ding!