cue card

American  

noun

Television.

1. a large card, out of range of the camera, on which words or phrases have been printed in large letters for the speaker or performer to read or use as a memory aid during a program.

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Example Sentences

“We’ve used that cue card, like, 15 times.”

From Los Angeles Times

With Meyers’ nods to the writers, exchanges with cue card guy Wally Feresten, an ability to turn interviews into conversations and a tendency to laugh incredulously at his own material or delivery, “Late Night,” like Ferguson’s late-lamented “Late Late Show,” has an air of being anti-professional and intimate, of being something happening in real time, made by humans.

From Los Angeles Times

Magill even released a video in which she looked like a hostage being forced to mouth words from a cue card.

From Seattle Times

Two employees told the magazine that they remember witnessing Fallon scold a crew member holding a cue card during an episode that featured Seinfeld — and that the comic told the host to apologize.

From Los Angeles Times

I have that cue card in my car.

From New York Times