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Nonhuman Weekend Update Characters, Ranked
Bowen Yang perfected the art form, but a few cast members have brought fantastically costumed characters to the Update desk.
It did feature a few nonhuman characters in eccentric costumes throughout its first 45 seasons (you’ll see plenty of them below), but it really wasn’t until Bowen Yang joined the cast in 2019 that Update started regularly embracing this style of comedy. The attention to detail on Bowen’s fabulous bug suit (which he flaunts to a booing audience) means that millions of viewers now know exactly what a spotted lanternfly looks like, and they’re more motivated than ever to squash it dead. One of the bitterest ironies of the modern world is that we almost put an end to adolescent smoking, but then those pesky vape pens swooped in and rendered years of effective TV PSAs useless.
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