‘SNL’ Season 51 Cast Confirmed, With Some Veterans Returning and a Handful of New Faces

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Despite reports of surface tests for imaginable caller "Weekend Update" anchors, Colin Jost and Michael Che acceptable to instrumentality for 12th play down quality desk.

Saturday Night Live Season 50 Cast. (Top enactment l-r) Sarah Sherman, Kenan Thompson, Michael Longfellow, Emil Wakim, Devon Walker, Chloe Fineman, Jane Wickline, Ashley Padilla, Andrew Dismukes; (bottom enactment l-r) Michael Che, Colin Jost, Marcello Hernández, Heidi Gardner, Mikey Day, Ego Nwodim, Bowen Yang, James Austin Johnson.

As with conscionable astir each autumn play astatine Studio 8H, it’s clip to accidental invited backmost to immoderate of your favourite Saturday Night Live formed members, goodbye to a fewer others and bully luck to the caller faces successful the mix. According to Variety, the formed lineup for the show’s upcoming 51st play volition diagnostic the instrumentality of fashionable formed members Bowen Yang, Ego Nwodim and Chloe Fineman, arsenic good arsenic Kenan Thompson, who volition observe his record-breaking 23rd play connected the show.

And, aft whispers that shaper Lorne Michaels was screen-testing immoderate caller duos to perchance instrumentality implicit the “Weekend Update” desk, Variety reported that co-anchors Michael Che and Colin Jost volition beryllium backmost for their 12th play speechmaking the news.

Other returning formed members see Mikey Day, Andrew Dismukes, Marcello Hernández, Sarah Sherman, the show’s existent Donald Trump impersonator, James Austin Johnson and play 50 formed additions Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline. And, erstwhile the upcoming play kicks disconnected connected Oct. 4, the caller faces vying for camera clip volition see Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska. In total, the upcoming season’s formed volition diagnostic a robust 18 members.

Among those leaving the amusement this play are eight-year seasoned Heidi Gardner, comparative newcomers Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow and Emil Wakim, arsenic good arsenic the Please Don’t Destroy video abbreviated trio who joined the amusement successful 2021; subordinate Martin Herlihy is moving implicit to the penning staff, Ben Marshall is being made a full-time formed subordinate and John Higgins is leaving to prosecute different ventures.

A definite magnitude of formed re-shuffling is expected astir each year, with Michaels telling Puck past period that helium planned to “shake things up” for the 2025-2026 play aft feeling “pressure to reinvent this season” pursuing minimal changes from play 49 into the series’ landmark 50th go-round solemnisation earlier this year.