Bullseye with Jesse Thorn: NPR

New York, New York – February 14: Ego Nwodim attends SNL50: The Homecoming Concert on Radio City Music Hall on February 14, 2025 in New York. (Photo of Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images)
There are Dipasupil / Getty images
hide
tilting legend
There are Dipasupil / Getty images
New York, New York – February 14: Ego Nwodim attends SNL50: The Homecoming Concert on Radio City Music Hall on February 14, 2025 in New York. (Photo of Dia Dipasupil / Getty Images)
There are Dipasupil / Getty images
This week on BullseyeWe are talking to Ego Nwodim! She has just completed her seventh season as a member of the distribution on Saturday Night Live – One of the most demanding shows on television and a program that celebrated its 50th anniversary. So you know, double the pressure.
Ego is an interpreter occupied both on and outside SNL. She appears in television shows like Poker Face and Mr. Throwback, and made voices for animated programs like Bearbrick and Futurama. She also appears in films, like the next adaptation on the big screen of the Gabby doll house.
Nwodim is great in almost all that she does – of her ordinary parts Saturday Night Livein his time on comedy shows as Comedy Bang Bang and Paul F. Tompkins’ Spontaneation.
She speaks to Bullseye About his roundabouting path to comedy, including hearing native native sections, and a lot about his incredible SNL character: Lisa de Temecula.