the cast for season 50 of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live is in place with the upand cominging comedians Ashley Padilla Emil Wacom and Jane wickline joining as featured players the network announced on Tuesday the new season is scheduled to premiere on September 28th Khloe tro who joined SNL as a featured player last season was not asked to return she said in an Instagram post on Monday unfortunately I was not asked back to SNL this season tro wrote I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there it truly felt like home but it wasn't in the cards Padilla like many SNL alumni before her including Will Farrell Maya Rudolph Kristen wig and Phil Hartman comes from the Los Angeles Improv and sketch comedy troop the Groundlings she also appeared this year in a final season episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and in an episode of the NBC Revival of Night Court wam a Lebanese American comedian who grew up mostly in Indiana made his late night stand-up debut in 2022 on NBC's The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon that year he was named the new face of comedy at the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal and is open for the comics Roy Wood Jr Nikki Glazer Hassan mined and Neil Brennan wickline is probably most recognizable from Tik Tok where she has nearly a million followers and contributes regularly to staple view a live Tik Tok comedy show also returning are the main cast members Michael Chay Mikey day Andrew dismukes Khloe feeman Heidi Gardner James Austin Johnson Colin Joost ego nudm Sarah Sherman Keenan Thompson and Bowen young the former featured players Marcelo Hernandez Michael Longfellow and Devin Walker all of whom joined SNL for its 48th season