Is Bowen Yang still on SNL?

Bowen Yang is an Australian-born American actor, comedian, writer, singer, rapper, and podcaster. As of this writing, Bowen Yang is still on SNL.

Bowen Yang was hired in 2018 as a staff writer on Saturday Night Live for the show’s 44th season. He shared that he “always loved SNL growing up, but had trouble imagining himself on the show because he’d never seen people who looked like him associated with the series”.

Bowen Yang has writing credits on twenty-one episodes of the show for the 2018–2019 season. In September 2019, Yang was promoted to featured player for the 45th season. Bowen Yang is the show’s first-ever Chinese-American cast member, and third openly gay male cast member after Terry Sweeney and John Milhiser.

Bowen Yang made history becoming the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 2021. He was promoted to repertory status before the 47th season

In 2021, Yang was applauded for speaking out on the recent surge in violence against Asian Americans during a Weekend Update segment. Also in 2021, he appeared on the Time 100, Time’s annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.