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The following is a list of Saturday Night Live writers. The show, created by Lorne Michaels , is an American live sketch comedy and variety show . Airing since 1975, it has employed a large and changing staff of writers.
Megan Callahan-Shah (born February 1985) is an American television writer known for her work on Saturday Night Live.. Callahan-Shah was born in Illinois to Paul and Jane Callahan in Downers Grove, Illinois.
Colin Kelly Jost (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ s t /; born June 29, 1982) [1] [2] is an American comedian, writer, and actor. Jost has been a staff writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2005, and co-anchor of Weekend Update since 2014.
Lorne Michaels CC (born Lorne David Lipowitz; November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television writer and film producer.He created and produced Saturday Night Live (1975–1980, 1985–present) and produced the Late Night series (since 1993), The Kids in the Hall (from 1989 to 1995), and The Tonight Show (since 2014).
Samaria Johnson (born January 13, 1982), better known as Sam Jay, is an American comedian and writer.She is best known as a writer for Saturday Night Live (2017–2020), her Netflix comedy special 3 in the Morning (2020), and as the co-creator and co-star of the HBO comedy series Pause with Sam Jay (2021–2022) and the Peacock comedy series Bust Down (2022).
In December 2013, after auditioning for Lorne Michaels twice, Rich was hired to write for Saturday Night Live. She was also recommended for the job by SNL cast member Cecily Strong, a friend of Rich's who was her understudy during her time at The Second City. [5] Rich is one of four writers who work exclusively on SNL ' s Weekend Update segment ...
Bill Murray was a writer and cast member on SNL from 1977-80, winning an Emmy Award for his writing. Today, Murray is known for his roles in classic films like Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981 ...
In 1976, Downey joined the Saturday Night Live writing staff as its youngest member. [3] He was among the first Harvard Lampoon writers to write for television, at a time when, in the opinion of writer Steve O'Donnell, "the sensibilities of the Lampoon [were] a little closer to the sensibilities of the mass media."