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Posted on 08/27/2025 11:57:16 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Saturday Night Live writer Celeste Yim is leaving the long-running NBC show after five years in the writers’ room.
Yim, who revealed the news on Instagram, joined the show in 2020 and was promoted to writing supervisor in 2023.
Yim, who wrote sketches including L’Eggs and We’re Trying, said, “After five seasons, I’m leaving my job at Saturday Night Live. Lorne hired me over the phone when I was 23 and the job literally made all of my dreams come true BUT it was also grueling and I slept in my office every week BUT my friends helped me with everything BUT I got yelled at by random famous men BUT some famous girls too BUT I loved it and I laughed every day and it’s where I grew up.”
Early Days Of ‘SNL’ To Be Depicted In New Off Broadway Play ‘Not Ready For Prime Time’ “I hate when other people say this but it’s true that I was the first ever out trans person to be a writer for SNL,” Yim added. “I always felt honored to be working within the long tradition of queer writing at the show. Many don’t know this but Chevy is non-binary! I feel so powerless to protect trans people in the world but writing connects us and makes us permanent, so it’s what I will continue to do.”
Yim, who has collaborated regularly with cast member Bowen Yang, gave a particular shout out to the Las Culturistas host for “changing my life and making me feel normal”, as well as many other cast members and writers. “Thank you very very much to every SNL assistant and production crew member who ever made any part of anything I ever wrote,” Yim added.
Yim, a 2021 Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow and the 2019 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Canadian Women Artists’ Award for Playwriting, was also behind short play Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful.
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No wonder SNL hasn’t resonated with me for years!!! Im not the demographic they target.. are you?
His pronouns are Ye/Yim.
Saturday night what?
So he who identifies as a she received an award that was meant to go to a woman…a true biological woman!
“ 2019 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Canadian Women Artists’ Award for Playwriting”.
How many other trans men identifying as a woman have they awarded? Is he-it-she the first?
Just a cross-dressing woman who likes to wear men’s clothes.
In my last comment, I assumed it was a biological female who dresses like a man. The pictures of it at the link, dressed in shirt, tie and men’s jacket made me think so. So what was it at birth? I did a search and it didn’t give its biological sex, just said both male and female...non-binary. Does that mean it wakes up everyday and decides what sex it wants to be, and dresses accordingly? These people are freaking nuts.
A professional writer wrote that?
Trying to figure out if it is a he to she or she to he? Crazy world we live in!
You may feel normal, but you're not normal. You're a mentally disturbed freak and everyone with a normal brain knows it.
I don’t suppose that SNL will become watchable again just because of this.
Come to think of it, it has been at least twice as long as Yim has been there since I have watched an episode.
Probably not, if they are still on the air.
Technically, SNL started as a Boomer thing.
When I was growing up, we used to call men who liked to wear women's clothes, cross-dressers, and we called women who wanted to look like men and wear men's clothes, dykes. You didn't dare say queer outloud. Today they prefer to be called that. Glad I'm on the tail-end of my life, and won't have to hear about this stupidity too much longer.
Who?
I’ve written comedy. I’ve won an award for it. Here’s the thing. You have to write about universal experiences. That’s things the audience can relate to. And that’s the problem with trying to mainstream something that I’d guess covers somewhere less than five percent of the audience. Gay or alphabet people complain they are used as outrageous comedy foils and not portrayed as real people. First, real people are not good characters. Read any literature and it’s the flaws in characters that make them real. Alphabet people want to be portrayed as the normal everyday person next door. That would be mind numbingly boring. Second, pretending that the abnormal is normal will lose the broader audience who will find the material drole and boring. I’d guess this is why SNL is hemorrhaging money.
So this guy is saying Chevy Chase is queer?
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