Saturday Night time Dwell is welcoming in three new members of its solid for the present’s landmark fiftieth season.
Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline have joined the NBC late evening present as featured gamers for 2024-25. The season will premiere Sept. 28 with most of final season’s ensemble intact, though Punkie Johnson and Molly Kearney introduced their departures from the present over the summer season. Chloe Troast, a featured participant final season, can also be departing.
“Sadly I used to be not requested again to SNL this season,” Troast wrote in an Instagram Story on Monday night. “I want I used to be going again to be with all of the superb mates I made there, it really felt like residence. But it surely wasn’t within the playing cards.”
A lot of the present’s remaining veterans, nevertheless, are anticipated to be again for season 50, with Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker making the soar from featured gamers to the primary solid. Former castmember Maya Rudolph can also be set to play Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, within the run-up to the election. Rudolph performed Harris a number of occasions through the 2020 marketing campaign and the months after Joe Biden and Harris took workplace.
Along with SNL’s common episodes within the coming season, the present will have a good time its 50 years on the air with a three-hour, primetime particular on Feb. 16, 2025. (The precise fiftieth anniversary of the primary present falls on Oct. 11, 2025.) Moreover — and never immediately associated to the present — Jason Reitman’s function movie Saturday Night time, which dramatizes the run-up to the sequence premiere, debuted on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant and can roll out theatrically starting in late September.
Padilla has been a member of L.A.’s Groundlings essential firm since 2021 and has had visitor roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Night time Court docket. Wakim has carried out stand-up on The Tonight Present and the Only for Laughs Comedy Pageant, the place he was named a “New Face of Comedy” in 2022; he’s additionally opened for comics Roy Wooden Jr., Nikki Glaser and Hasan Minhaj. Wickline is a part of the ensemble for Stapleview, a sketch present that’s gained a large TikTok following.