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SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE GETTING THREE NEW CAST MEMBERS!

Posted by Adam

Tuesday August 31, 2010

HIT comedy show Saturday Night Live is getting three new cast members!

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The lucky trio reportedly consists of  Taran Killam, who’s appeared on Mad TV and How I Met Your Mother (Killam is also the boyfriend of HIMYM star Cobie Smulders) and Chicago-based comedians Paul Brittain and Vanessa Bayer.

This is what the New York York post reported Monday:

Lorne Michaels, the show’s creator and longtime producer, always creates a stir just before the beginning of each season because he refuses to tell the cast who will be coming back.

Regulars such as “Weekend Update” anchor Seth Meyers, Andy Samberg, Jason Sudeikis and Kenan Thompson are among those who have not yet said if they are being re-hired, according to reports.

Michaels has been sighted in Chicago a bunch of times this summer, scouting new talent in the city famous for its improv comedy companies.

Among the new cast members, Killam, 28, is by far the best known.

He is the longtime boyfriend of “How I Met Your Mother” star Cobie Smulders and the father of a 1-year-old baby with her.

He became free when the proposed series he’d been working on — the Arianna Huffington-produced comedy called “Freshman,” about three first-term congressmen living together in the same D.C. apartment — was not picked up by ABC.

Brittain and Bayer are little known outside Chicago, where they have starred in stage comedies and done stand-up.

The connection between Chicago comedians and “SNL” dates back to the earliest days of the show.

John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, Chris Farley and Tina Fey were all recruited out of the ranks of Windy City comics, especially the famous Second City improv troupe.

“SNL” starts the new season — its 36th — in late September.

Just last week, Will Forte – who joined SNL in 2002 — announced he is moving on from the show “to pursue other opportunities”.

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  • bill

    You could put Seth Rogan, Steve Carell, Will Ferrell , 1982′s Eddie Murphy and a resurrected George Carlin for this show and it would still be horrible. Has Michaels seen Madtv? If he had he’d know that the funniest thing on the show was the annoying Korean lady, and that character sucked the big one. Let the show die with dignity; it may be too late!

    • Bob

      Taran Killam was “Jimmy the Orderly” on Scrubs. He’s an amazing impressionist and should do great on SNL.

  • Pete Zaah

    Kristen Wiig has grown very annoying, same obnoxious character in every skit. Keenan Thompson is horrible at impressions, I don’t know why he keeps getting the opportunities to do them.
    The rest are hit or miss.

  • Alden

    They need to go back to their roots. What made them in the 70′s. They were not afraid to be politicaly incorrect. No one can take a joke anymore. Eddie Murphy as Buckwheat wouldn’t be allowed to day among other skits about drugs.

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