Who is Bowen Yang from SNL?
COMEDIAN Bowen Yang was promoted to a full time cast member on Saturday Night Live on September 27, 2021.
Yang, 30, was initially promoted from a staff writer to a featured cast member on SNL in 2019.
Who is Bowen Yang from SNL?
Yang is an Australian born Chinese-American actor, writer and comedian.
He co-hosts a comedy pop-culture podcast, with Matt Rogers.
In September 2018, Yang landed a staff writer position on Saturday Night Live during season 44.
A year later, he was to on-air cast for the show's 45th season, becoming its first Chinese-American, third openly-gay male and fourth-ever cast member of Asian descent.
In 2019, he was named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list.
The clear choice, Yang was alongside Chloe Fineman to be promoted from a featured cast member to full-time.
Yang gave the iceberg's side of the story ahead of the 109th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 1912.
Yang sported pale-blue face makeup, a white suit and an iceberg-shaped hat.
He started the segment by explaining that this time of year is "always really weird" for him before making "tip of the iceberg" remarks about his feelings.
The iceberg then had no choice but to go on the defensive when Jost asked what he'd want to tell the families of the 1,500 people who died on the Titanic.
“I think my publicist was very clear, I’m not here to talk about the sinking,” Yang explained, adding that he was only appearing on the show to promote his new album, a mix of “hyper-pop, EDM, nu-disco, fantasia."
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Yang followed up his album promotion by ranting about how the Titanic hit him, and not the other way around.
When Jost pointed out that it seemed like the iceberg was trying to play the victim, he immediately retorted, “Everyone’s talking about me, nobody’s talking about the water!”
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