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Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedian and writer. [1] [2] Career. Yim's career began in the mid-2010s, in indie stand-up shows in Toronto. They then were named to the Bob Curry fellowship for The Second City and worked as a juror for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival.
- "It Gets Better"
- "L'eggs"
- "The Christmas Conversation"
- Weekend Update: "Bowen Yang on The Rise of Anti-Asian Hate Crimes"
- "College Panel"
"I grew up with the It Gets Better Campaign. Now that I'm an adult, it's sort of a bizarre thing to look back at the way the marketing of queer people has tipped. It's sort of scary because there is still so little queer media out there and the few examples you do see are presented in a sanitized way. A lot of what you see is like, if you are gay t...
After learning about the existence of hosiery that's sold in a plastic egg, Yim teamed up with Bryant to write a sketch about two women trying to make L'Eggs cool again. "It pretty much made no sense from the beginning of writing to the end," Yim explains. "The kids targeted by these women are in an afterschool rap group, which also makes no sense....
"Jasmine asked if I had that conversation with my mom and I said yes. It became clear to everybody in the writers' room that everybody had the same conversation. It was one of those weird moments like, 'does everyone have the same parent?'"
"So many times this year it felt impossible to parse through the barrage of information, let alone the feeling of pain and grief and anger attached to that information. I felt, personally, in that noise I couldn't make out what felt like anything helpful or hopeful. Bowen, who is a collaborator and friend, has a special gift. When he speaks, it's h...
As a non-conforming person of color, this was a subject that hit close to home for Yim. "It was in the season finale of the show. It was a panel of a cast of a very diverse TV show that was being interviewed by these two NYU students. They have all these cutesy questions for Pete Davidson's character, but for everybody else, they have extremely per...
- Lynette Rice
- 17 min
Sep 9, 2022 · An interview with comedian Celeste Yim, one of the comics featured on Vulture’s list of “Comedians You Should and Will Know” in 2022.
- Vulture Editors
- Contributor
Celeste Yim is a writer from Toronto, Canada. Celeste is a writer for Saturday Night Live. Celeste was a 2021 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow and the 2019 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Canadian Women Artists’ Award for Playwriting.
Oct 7, 2020 · Yim grapples with their Korean-Canadian identity and investigates pop culture's tendency to ridicule Asian accents in their VICE article, calls actors to resist the Oscars in their piece for...
Celeste Yim is a staff writer for Saturday Night Live. Canadian-born, they first forayed into comedy doing indie stand-up shows in Toronto as a university student, where they became an alumnus of the Bob Curry Fellowship at The Second City and worked as a juror for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival.
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Mar 10, 2017 · Celeste Yim is a Toronto-based comedian. You can find her @celestrogen everywhere and can find her work at celestrogen.com. She’s a Bob Curry fellow at The Second City, where she’ll be putting ...
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