Emil Wakim

So, um, that season 48 class, Devin Walker, third episode debuted an update.

Emil Wakim from season 50, season f- uh, episode four of his season was an up- update on de- um, debuted an update, sorry.

Tommy Brennan, third episode.

Longfellow, first.

Traffic Stop with Seth Meyers, like Ego really playing into some sass and sex appeal and, like, always being flirty was, like, a big thing for her.

Chloe Troast never updated, uh, never did update debut, but Little Orphan Cassidy is, like, a memorable debut for the pop because she sang in it, like Aristotle Atari with Angelo, Say For Me, like, you know, one of my favorites, to Marcello being a stand-up and then having the Towel Guys.

Emil Wakim had a great pop with Paul Mescal on the earring sketch, getting to work off a vet and also, you know, did stand-up.

That was a stand-up kind of year.

Islamophobia is the term, you know, but it's really bigotry and racism.

Because if we think about women's rights, we, we think about gay rights, lots of other things, right? Those are fairly new phenomenon, not just in our country, but around the world, right? So, um, and I think, I think it was, uh, Emil Wakim, a comedian who was on SNL a few months back, who said, you know, people say, oh, in Palestine, you can't be gay in Palestine.

And he says, "Well, you know, maybe stop raining bombs down.

They'll get to, they'll get to gay," right? Like, almost like if people are able to live a life that's peaceful, and they can, you know, prosper econ- economically, maybe they'll actually start to demand rights from their governments.

So I will say, um, one of the things that I think that Shane does really well in his time as a host is that he seems to be really supportive of the new cast members.

So there's no denying that what we saw in his second time hosting was he did a sketch alone with Emil Wakim to end the night.

Tonight, or on Saturday night, we saw him do this sketch with Grace Ryder, who had a phenomenal episode, and this was her breakout moment.

And I think that Shane has to have had something to do with, like, "Hey, I wanna do the sketch with Grace.

Four seconds.

You know, we saw Ben Marshall, Jane Wickline at the bottom, Emil Wakim.

Those are all under 15 seconds, including Desus Nice who came in a weird year with COVID on that Chris Rock episode.

And then where Saida is, she's between Aristotle and Paul Britton, you know? People that if you write the history of SNL you might not mention.

And I get that.

I think a lot of the conversation last year, for those who weren't with us, was that Emil Wakim had been let go from the show between 50 and 51.

So when Mamdani became popular and then, you know, inevitably el- uh, elected mayor of New York, there was some talk of like, "Well, who's gonna play him now?" And like the, the Emil fans like really stood up, and they were like, "Okay, you know, like this would've been a great reason to keep him on the show." Um, and I felt like when Ramy Youssef played him in that sketch, uh, there was pretty much universal praise 'cause, you know, this is a guy who obviously, like they get along, it was cool, it was like a fun idea.

Um, it was alongside, you know, Shane Gillis, uh, who we'll see in a couple weeks, like doing, uh, a, a good impression of another candidate.