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Ego Nwodim Is in Her Silly Season
The SNL star breaks down six of her strongest and wrongest characters.
Ego Nwodim had a number of hits over her first four seasons on Saturday Night Live( “Loco,”“Dionne Warwick Talk Show,”“Mid-Day News”), but things changed last year after “Lisa From Temecula,” a February 2023 sketch that not only was a breakout hit for the show but a creative breakthrough for Nwodim. Since that sketch, Nwodim has hit a groove on SNL with a steady stream of the silliest performances in the world, like as Katt Williams and the Jamaican preacher Father Lawrence. I say this respectfully: I love my collaborators, but they took out one of our strongest jokes, I think by accident, while they were chopping and screwing and doing surgery and rearranging it between dress and air.
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