Saturday Night Live Was Director School for Julio Torres

Photo: Getty Images for Vulture It's hard being a multi-hyphenate. "I was a very visual kid," Julio Torres said at Vulture Festival. "And then I got it in my head that I wanted to write film and TV. I thought that would mean abandoning the visual side of me." Torres did stand-up in New York, worked on The Chris Gethard Show before writing on Saturday Night Live. There, he broke out with pre-taped sketches. And it was by watching the directors of those sketches that Torres found a way to marry the visual with the comedic. "I shadowed directors, basically, and I learned what little . . .