Two new women will be making their debut on Saturday Night Live this weekend. Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott have been added to their cast of super funny comedians as replacements for Amy Poehler and Tina Fey.

According to Hollywood.com:

Elliott is the daughter of onetime Letterman sidekick Chris Elliott and granddaughter of veteran comic Bob Elliott (of Bob and Ray fame), so you can say she has it in her blood. She recently played at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater — the improv group co-founded by Poehler — as well as trained with Los Angeles’s Groundlings Theater, TVGuide.com reports.

Watkins also comes from the Groundlings Theater — as did such past SNLers as Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman and Kristen Wiig. In addition to numerous one-off TV gigs, she enjoyed a three-episode arc on The New Adventures of Old Christine.

I think this might be exactly what SNL needed, things have really been gong downhill since Tina Fey left and other than Kristen Wiig the rest of their women cast just isn’t that great. To read the rest of the article click here.

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