Hudson was SNL’s first Black female cast member, having joined the show in its ill-fated sixth season. She appeared in a number of sketches uncredited before getting fired along with nearly everyone ...
“Saturday Night Live” is adding two female cast members, an NBC source confirmed to Access Hollywood. The new members are comediennes Michaela Watkins (pictured) (“The New Adventures of Old Christine” ...
Sherri Shepherd has a personal reason for wanting a Black female cast member on Saturday Night Live: “When I co-hosted The View, there was no Black woman on the show to play me.” Back in Shepherd’s ...
The end of 2025 saw Bowen Yang depart Saturday Night Live. Could we get a new cast member during the first episode of 2026?
Over the past 50 years, “Saturday Night Live” has had 171 cast members. Only seven have been Black women, and just five lasted longer than one season. In 1980, Lorne Michaels introduced Yvonne Hudson ...