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The new scribes include actor-writer Jack Bensinger<\/a> (\u201cRap World<\/a>\u201d), stand-up comedian Jo Sunday<\/a> (Just for Laughs<\/a>), comic Maddie Wiener<\/a> (\u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon<\/a>\u201d), actor and writer Rachel Pegram<\/a> (\u201cHarley Quinn<\/a>\u201d), writer-comedian Claire McFadden<\/a> (Second City<\/a>) and Maxwell Gay<\/a> and Tucker Flodman<\/a>, two newcomers from The Harvard Lampoon. Writer Auguste White<\/a> has left the \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d writing staff.<\/p>\n After a landmark 50th season on NBC<\/a>, \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d returns for Season 51 on Oct. 4 with host Bad Bunny and musical guest Doja Cat<\/a>. On Oct. 11, Amy Poehler<\/a> returns to Studio 8H to host alongside music act Role Model<\/a>, and on Oct. 18, Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> will pull double-duty as host and musical guest.<\/p>\n Ahead of the new season, \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d added a handful of new cast members as a slew of familiar faces departed from the show. Heidi Gardner<\/a> exited the series after eight seasons,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d has added seven new writers ahead of Season 51. The new scribes include actor-writer Jack Bensinger (\u201cRap World\u201d), stand-up comedian Jo Sunday (Just for Laughs), comic Maddie Wiener (\u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon\u201d), actor and writer Rachel Pegram (\u201cHarley Quinn\u201d), writer-comedian Claire McFadden (Second City) and Maxwell Gay and Tucker Flodman, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2060315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2060314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018SNL-Hires-7-New-Writers-for-Season-51-Exclusive.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2060315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}