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‘SNL’ (Trans) Writer Celeste Yim Leaving After Five Years
Deadline ^ | August 25, 2025 | Peter White

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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To: antceecee

Real life example of a tree falling in the forest. Dont care


21 posted on 08/28/2025 4:43:37 AM PDT by slapshot ( GOPE republipussies are more dangerous than deranged progressives.)
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To: nickcarraway

She does know how to use the capital BUT.


22 posted on 08/28/2025 4:45:54 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: HIDEK6

Oops. He’s a he.


23 posted on 08/28/2025 4:46:53 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: nickcarraway

I gave up after get yer ya yas out


24 posted on 08/28/2025 4:51:20 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Ikeon

No. Watchers must have some sort of Saturday Night Fever. I’m just stayin’ alive.


25 posted on 08/28/2025 5:17:26 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: nickcarraway

And we care because....?


26 posted on 08/28/2025 5:44:02 AM PDT by TheElectionWasStolen
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To: nickcarraway
So they hired Pat 5 years ago and now Pat is leaving?

OK. In other news, ...............

27 posted on 08/28/2025 5:44:13 AM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Seinfeld: “Now THAT’S funny.....’cause it’s REAL.”


28 posted on 08/28/2025 5:45:46 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: LegendHasIt
I had thought that Saturday Night Live would become unwatchable because of its cancellation. I was wrong. It will slog on through another season.
29 posted on 08/28/2025 6:39:02 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: nickcarraway
I was the first ever out trans person to be a writer for SNL,” Yim added.

Talk about a pathetic milestone statement. who cares. It demonstrates that the left is about activism, in your face activism.

30 posted on 08/28/2025 6:41:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: subterfuge

His next movie “Trans Vacation”, should be a winner.


31 posted on 08/28/2025 7:29:05 AM PDT by ABN 505 (+)
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To: nickcarraway

Nobody under 70 watches Saturday Night Live television. It’s an elephant’s graveyard where Woodstock Boomers in tie dye t-shirts go to die.


32 posted on 08/28/2025 8:49:38 AM PDT by sergeantdave (AI training involves stealing content from creators and not paying them a penny)
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To: sergeantdave

No it isn’t.

“The show was designed to appeal to viewers ages 18 to 34 but the recent audience spans from ages 30 to 44.”

“According to Statista, the most frequent viewers are those between ages 30 and 44. Of that surveyed population, 19% stated that they watched the program often, and 28% said they watched it sometimes.”

“Among adults ages 18-49, “SNL” was the No. 1 broadcast series of the 2024-2025 season, excluding sports and news programming, and the No. 1 broadcast or cable comedy for the sixth season running.”


33 posted on 08/28/2025 10:17:43 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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