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Apr 27, 2021 · Comedian Nasim Pedrad is finally starring on her own show, but she chose to leave "Saturday Night Live" before that for another comedy. While working as a regular cast member on "SNL" from 2009...
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In the autumn of 2014, she left Saturday Night Live to star in a new Fox sitcom, Mulaney. [8] On October 18, 2014, Fox shut down production of the series by reducing the 16-episode order by three episodes.
Feb 6, 2024 · Just ask SNL vet Nasim Pedrad, who was a cast member from 2009 to 2014. While she may have been done with SNL, she wasn’t done with comedy. Shortly after her run, her next big TV gig was...
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Nasim Pedrad (born November 18, 1981) is an Iranian-American actress, comedian, writer, and singer. Pedrad was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy and variety series Saturday Night Live from 2009 to 2014. She was a performer at The Groundlings and sometimes performed at ImprovOlympic and Upright Citizens Brigade. In 2014, Pedrad announced her retirement from SNL to join Mulaney (2014–2015), the sitcom created by SNL writer John Mulaney.
She later went on to star in the Fox sitcom New Girl (2015–2018), the Fox horror comedy series Scream Queens (2015), and the TBS science fiction comedy series People of Earth (2017). Pedrad also created, produced, and starred in the TBS sitcom Chad (2021–Present).
In film, Pedrad appeared in the romantic comedy No Strings Attached (2011), the animated fantasy The Lorax (2012), the animated comedy Despicable Me 2 (2013), the horror comedy Cooties (2014), the musical fantasy Aladdin (2019), and the comedy Desperados (2020).
She cameoed on the show on April 14, 2018 (an episode hosted by Mulaney) in a pre-taped segment, it was her first, and so far, only appearance on SNL since leaving the show.
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•Bedelia •Lil' Blaster •Piper •Hu Jintao's translator at the G20 Summit meetings. •Wanda Ramirez •Nancy •Tippy •Shallon
Apr 15, 2013 · News had broken that day that Pedrad will leave the show after four years to costar in “SNL” writer John Mulaney’s buzzed-about sitcom if the pilot is picked up next month.
Aug 28, 2014 · After five years as a cast member, Nasim Pedrad left Saturday Night Live this spring with as little fanfare or melodrama as possible. During her final week on the show, she went about her business as usual — nobody, Pedrad included, knew exactly when she’d be moving on.
Jul 20, 2014 · No, we're not talking about the recently departed Brooks Wheelan, Noël Wells or John Milhiser — it's OK, no one really remembers what they did on the sketch show, either — but Nasim Pedrad ...
