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Annette Leslie Jones [1] [2] (born September 7, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She was a cast member and writer for the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2014 to 2019, and hosted the ABC game show Supermarket Sweep.
Her casting alongside Terry Sweeney (the show's first openly gay male cast member) was also the first time that Saturday Night Live had two gay cast members. [2] Vance joined the SNL cast during a time of great transition and turbulence for the show, and she became frustrated over repeatedly having characters stereotypical of young Black women ...
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]
Saturday Night Live is turning 50!The legendary sketch show kicks off a landmark 50th season on Saturday, Sept. 28 on NBC, with an incredible cast of comedians ready to put together a whole new ...
The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...
Danitra Vance (1954-1994) The first Black woman featured in the primary cast of SNL, Danitra Vance only appeared on the show for one season, in 1985, though she made an impression — literally ...
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 ...
Original cast (left to right): Laraine Newman, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd, Garrett Morris, and Chevy Chase. As of September 2024, the late-night live variety series Saturday Night Live (SNL) has featured 167 cast members.