After the dress rehearsal, producer Dick Ebersol told Michael O'Donoghue to tell William S. Burroughs to trim his six-minute reading down to three minutes. O'Donoghue, a fan of Burroughs', purposely did not relay the message to Burroughs, who read for the full six minutes on the live show.
Two sketches take place in what is supposed to be Lauren Hutton's dressing room, so they naturally use the same set twice.