The 25-year-old Korean-Canadian was the only writer hired by SNL during the pandemic.
It’s one thing to score a coveted writing gig onSaturday Night Liveduring the pandemic.
It’s quite another to earn an Emmy nomination for it.
‘Saturday Night Live’ writer Celeste Yim.Arin Sang-urai
Yim also made a startling discovery about hosiery.
“Aidy Bryantexplained them to me.
This was a reference I am too young for.
Now every time I go to a Duane Reede, I see them.
Aidy has opened up my eyes to a lot of things that I miss in my daily life.
I thank her for that clarity.”
Yim, in turn, has brought their own level of lucidity to the writers' room.
“It was such an interesting year to join the show,” Yim tells EW.
Here, Yim looks back at their favorite episodes to work on during the 46th season.
A lot of what you see is like,if you are gay then you are happy!
There’s not a lot of complexity in that.
The sketch also features a hysterical Kate McKinnon as a character who regrets owning an iguana.
“It was Kate’s idea.
She had a pet iguana growing up that absolutely wreaked havoc on her life.”
“It pretty much made no sense from the beginning of writing to the end,” Yim explains.
“The kids targeted by these women are in an afterschool rap group, which also makes no sense.
But at least they got to introduce L’Eggs to a whole new generation of viewers.
“That is the political legacy of my work on the show,” Yim jokes.
It became clear to everybody in the writers' room that everybody had the same conversation.
It was one of those weird moments like, ‘does everyone have the same parent?'”
When he speaks, it’s highly specific and very passionate.
So whenever he talks, people listen.
Writing with him is so easy because he can make anything compelling.
Even during that week, we didn’t know how to feel.
So we didn’t worry about what would be the best thing or most hilarious thing to say.
We just went with the most truthful representation of how we felt in that moment."
“It was in theseason finale of the show.
