Celeste Yim (born May 12, 1996) is a writer for Saturday Night Live. Yim uses they/them pronouns, and became a SNL writer at the beginning of season 46 in 2020, as the show's only new writer that season. Yim is also the show's first nonbinary writer.
As of February 4, 2023, Yim is a writing supervisor on the show.
Yim's career began in the mid-2010s, in indie stand-up shows in Toronto. They then were named to the Bob Curry fellowship for The Second City and worked as a juror for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. In 2017, Flare named them one of Canada's Top 100 Notable Women. They have also written for a number of publications, especially on topics of Korean-Canadian identity and racism in pop culture, including Vice and The Globe and Mail.
In 2019, they were awarded the 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts. In May that year, their play Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful was produced at the National MFA Playwrights Festival.
SNL Career[]
- 2020-present: Writer
- 2023-present: Writing Supervisor (first: February 4, 2023)