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Aug 27, 2021 · Meet SNL 's Celeste Yim, the clever writer (and Emmy nominee) behind the memorable 'It Gets Better' sketch. The 25-year-old Korean-Canadian was the only writer hired by SNL during the...
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In 2020, they were hired by Saturday Night Live, the only new writer to be hired for the show during that hiring season and the first writer to identify as non-binary (a non-binary cast member wouldn't come until two years later with Molly Kearney). In 2023, within the second-half of season 48, Yim became a writing supervisor for the show.
photo by Bridget Badore. 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 · Toronto playwright Celeste Yim joins Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live returned this fall for 46th season with pretty much the same writing crew, except one new writer: Toronto...
Celeste Yim (born May 12, 1996) is a writer for Saturday Night Live. Yim uses they/them pronouns, and became a SNL writer at the beginning of season 46 in 2020, as the show's only new writer that season. Yim is also the show's first nonbinary writer. As of February 4, 2023, Yim is a writing...
Jun 18, 2021 · Toronto's Celeste Yim, a first-year writer on Saturday Night Live, enjoys some ramen. Handout. Comments. Bookmark. Don’t blame Saturday Night Live stars Bowen Yang or Kate McKinnon...
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.
