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Saturday Night Live‘s upcoming Season 50 is in for a cast shake-up.
Deadline reports that the NBC sketch comedy show is welcoming Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline to the ensemble as featured players.
Hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area, Padilla has been part of the Groundlings Main, per a press release shared by the network on Tuesday. Wakim, a Lebanese-American comedian, actor, and writer’s credits include being honored as the 2022 Just for Laughs Comedy Festival’s New Face of Comedy and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
As for Wickline, she’s known for her work on Stapleview, a TikTok sketch comedy show, which was featured in The Los Angeles Times in 2022. She also regularly tours to showcase her sketch comedy.
Their casting comes as Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker are being bumped up from featured players to members of the main cast this season.
The show will celebrate Season 50 with a “live primetime special” which is set to air Feb. 16, 2025.
However, the new arrivals and promotions are contrasted by the departure of Chloe Troast, who joined SNL last season. She opened up on her Instagram story following Deadline’s report, telling fans that “unfortunately, [she] was not asked back.”
“I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there, it truly felt like home,” she wrote. “But it wasn’t in the cards.”
After thanking fans for their support, she expressed her hope of “spread[ing] joy and laughter.”
“Onwards and upwards,” she concluded.
Punkie Johnson, who began her run on SNL in 2020, confirmed her exit from the show in August, eventually revealing to Dana Carvey and David Spade on their Fly on the Wall podcast that she “didn’t really feel like [she] fit” on the show and “didn’t feel like that was [her] zone.”
“That show is for a different type of person,” she said. “I came from standup so I just thought everybody else came from standup. I started having conversations with people and everybody was like, ‘Oh yeah, we went to school for this.’ I’m like, ‘Y’all went to school to be here?'”
Season 50 of Saturday Night Live kicks off on Sept. 28 at 11:30 p.m. ET/ 8:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock.
