Punkie Johnson is among the latest SNL cast members and additionally the primary out Black lesbian on the comedy collection.
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NBC’s Saturday Night time Stay returns to TV on Oct. 3, with actor-comedian Jim Carrey taking part in former vp Joe Biden and three new cast members.
Meet Punkie Johnson, Lauren Holt and Andrew Dismukes.
Punkie Johnson
Punkie Johnson is a comic and author who’s appeared on the exhibits House Drive, Company, A Black Woman Sketch Present, Adam Ruins The whole lot and Invoice Burr Presents: The Ringers.
Johnson was a New Face on the Only for Laughs Competition in 2019 and is a paid common on the Comedy Retailer in Hollywood. Johnson can be the primary out Black lesbian to hitch the Saturday Night time Stay cast within the present’s lengthy 46-year-old historical past.
Lauren Holt
Lauren Holt within the quick movie quick movie Guardian Instructor Convention.
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Lauren Holt is a home performer from the Upright Residents Brigade theater in Los Angeles. She was a founding member of the UCB’s musical improv troupe known as The Pickup.
Holt’s additionally an actor who starred within the impartial LGBTQ net collection The Filth and the quick movie Guardian Instructor Convention. In 2015, she appeared within the music video for the track Til It Occurs to You by Woman Gaga.
Andrew Dismukes
Andrew Dismukes steps in entrance of the digicam this season on SNL after working three years as a author on the present.
New York Comedy Membership
Andrew Dismukes is a stand-up comedian who’s been working behind the scenes as a employees author at SNL since its 43rd season. This can be his debut as a cast member.
Dismukes was a part of the 2017 New Faces Showcase on the Only for Laughs Competition and carried out at different festivals resembling Comedy Central’s Colossal ClusterFest and the New York Comedy Competition.
Watch Dismukes carry out within the finals of the 2016 Funniest Particular person in Austin Contest.
On a facet word, SNL may even be working with comedy coaching packages on the PIT, Second Metropolis, the Groundlings and Upright Residents Brigade to supply funding for “a scholarship program for college students of various backgrounds to advance their comedy careers,” NBC stated in a press release on Wednesday.