ICYMI | Does SNL Need Internet Comedians?

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🗓️ 10 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim dive into the online conversations surrounding recent Saturday Night Live cast announcements. With departing fan favorites (such as Heidi Gardner) come the arrival of new talent, and for the past few years, SNL has been sourcing their talent from your For You Page. From TikTok-prominent comedian Veronika Slowikowska to Dropout regular Jeremy Culhane, what does it mean when internet comedians step into Studio 8H? Do they need SNL, or does SNL need them more? Get more of ICYMI with Slate Plus! Join for exclusive bonus episodes of ICYMI and ad-free listening on all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe from the ICYMI show page on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/icymiplus for access wherever you listen. This podcast is produced by Vic Whitley-Berry, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Candace Lim.
0:14.8	And I'm Kate Lindsay. And you're listening to I see Y.
0:17.5	In case you missed it.
0:19.5	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:21.8	And Kate, have you heard about this news scam that I'm really worried will affect us?
0:26.6	Oh God.
0:27.1	It's going to hit our industry.
0:28.2	Oh my God, no.
0:29.5	Here's the deal.
0:30.3	I'm on TikTok and I see this woman, she's an author, published by a real publishing house.
0:35.3	She says that someone has been scamming her because they have been pretending to work for Amy
0:42.1	Poller's podcast, Good Hang, and they have been fake trying to book her.
0:46.5	Do any of these words make sense to you?
0:48.4	I was about to say, I don't know if that is the most niche scam of all time.
0:54.3	Right.
0:54.6	Or if I just don't realize how popular Amy Poller's new podcast is.
1:06.2	Okay, so let me back up.
1:08.5	Taylor Wolf on TikTok basically posted these emails that someone has been sending her and get ready for this.
1:16.4	The email is coming from Bookgood hang at gmail.com.
1:21.9	Nothing suspicious about that.
1:24.0	No, no, not even the fact that this place is a real production company that is from
1:28.5	the ringer. Don't worry about that. Anyway, they basically say, hey, my name is Kevin. I'm a manager for Amy Poller's Good Hang podcast. We've been following your work. They say, we're going to pay you $2,000 on Arrarium. That just means like a fee to appear. And we would love to explore this opportunity with you and they basically want to bring her on the show.
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