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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.
- "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
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...
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.
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...
