Three young comics are about have their lives forever changed as they join the cast of Saturday Night Live just ahead of its milestone 50th season.
Late Monday, NBC announced that Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim, and Jane Wickline have joined the show as featured players this season.
Concurrently, the show also upped its three returning featured players to reperatory status: Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker.
Of the three new additions, Padilla has followed the show’s most traditional path, having been a member of Los Angeles sketch troupe The Groundlings since 2021. Her television credits include appearances on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and NBC’s Night Court revival.
Wakim is a standup comedian who’s opened for Roy Wood Jr., Nikki Glaser, Hasan Minhaj and Neal Brennan. In 2022, he made his TV debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and was selected as a New Face of Comedy at Montreal’s Just For Laighs Comedy Festival.
Wickline rose up through TikTok, where she began performing comedy in 2020 and now boasts nearly one million followers on the platform. Since 2022, she’s performed as part of the viral TikTok sketch comedy series Stapleview.
With the addition of Padilla, Wakim and Wickline, the show will have a total of 17 cast members this year.
Saturday Night Live is set to kick off its 50th season on September 28.
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