Saturday Night time Stay 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 night time 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 time. Chloe Troast, a featured participant final season, can be departing.
“Unfortunately I was not asked back to SNL this season,” Troast wrote in an Instagram Story on Monday night. “I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there, it truly felt like home. But it wasn’t in the cards.”
Many 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 leap from featured gamers to the principle solid. Former castmember Maya Rudolph can 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 in the course of 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 fun 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 straight associated to the present — Jason Reitman’s characteristic 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 fundamental firm since 2021 and has had visitor roles on Curb Your Enthusiasm and Night time Courtroom. Wakim has carried out stand-up on The Tonight Present and the Simply 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.
