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🗓️ 21 May 2025
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Tom Broecker is the costume designer of the legendary NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live. Broecker, who has been with the show for over three decades, is responsible for the design and creation of all of the costumes for the show—sometimes creating up to 200 for just one episode. Today on the podcast, he joins Who What Wear Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer Hillary Kerr to discuss the intricate process of creating iconic character costumes under tight weekly deadlines. He shares behind-the-scenes stories about the show's 50th anniversary, the massive costume archive, and the blend of psychology and resourcefulness needed to dress characters from Bill Hader as Stefon to Bowen Yang as the iceberg that sank the Titanic.
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1:35.9 | I'm Who What Weir's co-founder and chief content officer, Hillary Kerr, and today on the podcast, I am chatting with the costume designer of Saturday Night Live, Tom Broker. |
1:48.3 | Friends, we have an actual legend on the show today. |
1:53.0 | Tom has been with the groundbreaking sketch comedy show for over 30 years, |
1:57.6 | and in that time, he's created costumes for all of your favorite characters, from |
2:02.9 | Bill Hader as Stefan to Bowen Yang as the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. And he's done it so |
2:10.0 | often on the tightest of deadlines, sometimes turning around looks for 10 different sketches, |
2:15.8 | set in 10 different time periods, all within a |
2:19.1 | matter of a few days. Tom joins me today to talk about his experience of costuming and |
2:25.6 | producing the show over the last three decades, the recent S&L 50th anniversary extravaganza, |
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