‘SNL 50': Only Six Women Are In the Male-Dominated Five-Timers Club

The SNL Five-Timers Club is an exclusive group of celebrities who have hosted the show at least five times. A 1990 sketch featuring TomHanks officially introduced the club. Subsequent sketches ...
The Root

Next Season, Let’s See SNL Do Better at Portraying Black Women

Two week after Leslie Jones’ controversial segment on slavery, I was very worried about this week’s season finale of Saturday Night Live. With the frenzy surrounding what happened between Solange, Jay ...
The Root

Black Women on 'SNL': Lorne Michaels Is 'Sure It Will Happen'

On the eve of Kerry Washington’s appearance on Saturday Night Live, founding producer Lorne Michaels responded to rising complaints about the dearth of black female ...
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian

‘Saturday Night Live’ has a serious Black women problem

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 ...
Yahoo

Ego Nwodim Explains ‘SNL’ Exit and Says ‘I Hope There Will Be More Black Women’ on the Show: It Was ‘Time to Make Space for Something Else for Me’

Ego Nwodim is sharing her feelings about her time on “Saturday Night Live” and her decision to leave the late-night series just before its 51st season. On Wednesday’s episode of “Sherri,” Sherri ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Ego Nwodim Is “Honored” to Be the Seventh Black Woman on ‘SNL’ and Hopes More Will Join Cast

“I felt honored to represent for us,” she said. Of why season 51 was her time to leave the show, Nwodim explained that “it felt like the time to make space for something else for me.” By McKinley ...
Yahoo

Ego Nwodim explains why she left “SNL” and addresses lack of Black women in the show's cast

Ego Nwodim is spilling the details behind her shocking Saturday Night Live exit. The comedian, who caused a stir in September by announcing her departure from SNL just one month before the show's 51st ...
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‘SNL’ stars fire back after no ‘hot women’ on cast TikTok goes viral: ‘Grieving privately and uglily’

Live from New York, no “hot” women? A woman on TikTok is going viral for claiming that “Saturday Night Live” has “never” hired a “hot” woman in its nearly 50-year run — and some of the show’s female ...
USA Today

Nikki Glaser shocks in 'SNL' monologue with jokes about sex trafficking, pedophilia

Beware, we're recapping Nikki Glaser's "Saturday Night Live" monologue, which includes jokes about sex trafficking, rape, murder and child molestation. Nikki Glaser is never one to hold back in her ...
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Ego Nwodim Explains ‘SNL' Exit and Says ‘I Hope There Will Be More Black Women' on the Show: It Was ‘Time to Make Space for Something Else for Me'

Ego Nwodim is sharing her feelings about her time on "Saturday Night Live" and her decision to leave the late-night series just before its 51st season. On Wednesday's episode of "Sherri," Sherri ...