{"id":42789,"date":"2022-09-15T20:31:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=42789"},"modified":"2022-09-15T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:31:17","slug":"saturday-night-live-adds-four-featured-players-to-the-cast-for-the-upcoming-48th-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/15\/saturday-night-live-adds-four-featured-players-to-the-cast-for-the-upcoming-48th-season\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; Adds Four Featured Players to the Cast for the Upcoming 48th Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42788\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/new-snl-cast.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/new-snl-cast.jpg 720w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/new-snl-cast-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/new-snl-cast-360x180.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/>The season premiere episode of &#8220;<strong><em>SNL<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; airs on October 1 on NBC and streaming live on Peacock. &#8220;<em>SNL<\/em>&#8221; will continue with live shows on October 8 and October 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&#8221; won the 2022 Emmy\u00ae Award for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series. &#8220;<em>SNL<\/em>&#8221; is the most Emmy nominated show in history and holds 93 Emmy wins (including awards for its specials and short form series).<\/p><div id=\"morty-1652972252\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&#8221; is produced in association with Broadway Video. The creator and executive producer is Lorne Michaels.<\/p>\n<p>CAST BIOS<\/p>\n<p>MARCELLO HERNANDEZ<\/p>\n<p>Marcello Hernandez joins the cast of &#8220;<em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>&#8221; for his first season.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1179277820\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hernandez is a comedian, writer, and actor of Cuban\/Dominican descent. 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