""SNL's an institution, and the show has its own voice," she says. "So your job as a comedian coming to SNL is to figure out what I want to do for this particular audience.""
""I really did not expect the audience to do that," she recalls. "The joke is supposed to be that I'm performing with such hubris that I think people would know my silly little catchphrases, even though I'm a nobody. I promise, if we had known that's how the audience would have responded, we wouldn't have been able to do it.""
Ego Nwodim announced that she is leaving Saturday Night Live after seven years. She received a warm sendoff at the Fast Company Innovation Festival, where the audience gave her wild applause. Nwodim joined SNL in 2018 and became a standout performer known for many viral sketches. Notable bits include "Lisa From Temecula," which made Pedro Pascal laugh uncontrollably, and the "Mid-Day News" sketch that split newscasters along racial lines. She frequently appeared on Weekend Update as "Miss Eggy," whose call-and-response moment risked an FCC fine after an expletive from the audience. Nwodim says arriving cast members must blend their personal humor with SNL's established voice.
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