A familiar face. A favorite credit.
Celeste Yim
The sketches, the credits, the comedy.
All in one place.
Credited work (3)
Funny from behind the scenes.
The person behind the punchline
A little backstory.
Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedy writer and playwright whose work includes Saturday Night Live. They joined the show’s writing staff in 2020 and later became a writing supervisor. Their credits in the archive include The Christmas Conversation and ABBA Christmas, connecting character comedy with topical and musical sketches.
Yim studied at the University of Toronto and earned an MFA at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Their theatre background includes the Second City’s Bob Curry Fellowship, the National MFA Playwrights Festival and a Lambda Literary fellowship. They received the Canadian Women Artists’ Award for playwriting in 2019.