After 41 years on air, ‘Saturday Night Live’ adds first Latina cast member

''NBC’s comedy institution “Saturday Night Live” has added some new faces to its roster for the 2016 season, including the show’s first Latina cast member ever.

Comedian and impressionist Melissa Villaseñor was named to the long-running comedy skit show alongside Alex Moffat and Mikey Day, who has been a writer on the program since 2013.

Villaseñor, who is of Mexican descent, is the first Latina and only the third comedian of Hispanic descent to join “SNL.” Horatio Sanz, who left the show in 2006, and Fred Armisen, who departed in 2013, were the previous two Latinos in the show’s 41 seasons...''

by Lucia I. Suarez Sang

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