The Season 51 premiere will feature the return of a Latin superstar as host and a Grammy-winning pop star as musical guest.

Gardner joined the show as a featured player in 2017 and became a main cast member in 2019, making her the longest-running woman in the current cast. Wakim joined the show last year as a featured player and called his exit a “gut punch.”

SNL’s new season is making headlines with cast updates. See who’s back for season 51 and which fan-favorites are leaving the iconic show

Nwodim and host Ayo Edebiri dispute a gruesomely bad haircut in this deeply silly laugh-out-loud sketch. Nwodim’s work here is graceful, ceding some big laughs to Edebiri (and her grotesque wound makeup) while locking in to her (slightly) less ridiculous character with hilarious conviction.

For her feature directing debut, “Eleanor the Great,” Scarlett Johansson needed to tackle a character far removed from the roles she has played as an actress: an elderly woman who assumes the backstory of a Holocaust survivor.

After Lorne Michaels teased his plans to change the “Saturday Night Live” lineup for Season 51, it’s been confirmed that new comics are joining the show while several cast members, including Ego Nwodim and Heidi Gardner, will not be returning.