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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.
Saturday Night Live cast members [a] Performer Time on SNL No. of seasons Repertory player Featured player Middle group "Weekend Update" anchor Hosted Best of... Writer; Fred Armisen: 2002–2013: 11 Aristotle Athari: 2021–2022: 1 Dan Aykroyd: 1975–1979: 4 Peter Aykroyd † 1980: 1 Morwenna Banks: 1995: 1 Vanessa Bayer: 2010–2017: 7 Jim ...
Until joining SNL, Nwodim was a regular cast member at UCB, where she also performed her one-woman show Great Black Women...and Then There's Me. [2] [6] Nwodim was named one of the New Faces at the 2016 Just for Laughs festival. [7] Also that year, she performed at the CBS Diversity Showcase. [8]
Vance became the second-ever Black female cast member on "SNL" when she joined in 1985, and she only lasted a season. ... Johnson is only the second Black gay cast member in "SNL" history, after ...
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 ...
Punkie Johnson, who joined “SNL” as a featured player in 2020, was the first out Black queer woman on the show’s cast. She joined other LGBTQ cast members Kate McKinnon and Bowen Yang.
Cleghorne is best known for her tenure as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1991 to 1995. She was the sketch comedy show's second African-American female repertory cast member, succeeding Danitra Vance in its eleventh season , and the first African-American female cast member to stay for more than one season.
Yvonne Hudson (born July 9, 1955) is an American television actress and comedian who is best known for being the first African-American female cast member on Saturday Night Live. [1] [2] She joined the cast as a featured player in the show's 1980–1981 season (the first black female repertory player was Danitra Vance).