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Following the departures of Hannibal Buress and Will Forte, Vulture reports that three new comics will join the cast of Saturday Night Live this season.
Taran Killam, Paul Brittain and Vanessa Bayer will be making their SNL debuts this fall. Killam has previously appeared on How I Met Your Mother and Scrubs . He’s no stranger to late night sketch comedy, either: at age 19, he was the youngest cast member on MADtv.
Brittain and Bayer are both stand-up comedians from Chicago. Watch Bayer play a disembodied head in a Blue Shield commercial here.
Vulture speculates that hiring three new comics could mean more departures besides Forte. Rumors are circulating that Seth Meyers, Jason Sudeikis and Andy Samberg might also be moving on to bigger and better things.
Watch Killam in a Scrubs webisode below:
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aw man... Will Forte was my favorite. Jason Sudeikis and Seth Meyers are the only people I WISH would leave. It would be a better show (if only the writers would stop writing as if they were ten year olds.)