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The first former cast member to come back and host the show was Chevy Chase in February 1978. Chase is also the first former cast member to reach the Five-Timers Club, and is the most frequent-former cast member to host (he is also one of few hosts banned from hosting, having last hosted in 1997).
Her casting alongside Terry Sweeney (the show's first openly gay male cast member) was also the first time that Saturday Night Live had two gay cast members. [2] Vance joined the SNL cast during a time of great transition and turbulence for the show, and she became frustrated over repeatedly having characters stereotypical of young Black women ...
Canadian comedian Valri Bromfield wasn’t an original SNL cast member, but she did appear in the first episode, becoming the first woman to perform stand-up on the show. She delivered a two ...
The "rise of women" in SNL would continue with the addition of cast members Rachel Dratch, Maya Rudolph, and Amy Poehler in the next few years (particularly with Fey and Poehler as the first two women-anchor team on Weekend Update), to Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and others in later seasons. [163]
The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...
Ferrell, who was an SNL cast member from 1995 to 2002, became a Five Timer in 2019. Paul Rudd Rudd became a club member in 2017 after making his first appearance 13 years earlier.
Zamata was the first black female cast member on SNL since biracial Maya Rudolph departed midway through the show's 33rd season in 2007. [18] [19] [20] Zamata debuted on SNL as a featured player in the January 18, 2014 episode hosted by Drake, [21] in which she impersonated Rihanna.
She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2012 to 2022. [4] She is the longest-tenured female cast member in the show's history. [5] Strong has a starring role on the Apple TV+ musical comedy series Schmigadoon! (2021–2023), which she also co-produced.