cue card

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.

Example Sentences

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

He may have had to read a line off a cue card.

From New York Times