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Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedian and writer. [1] [2]
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Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedian and writer. [1] [2]
Yim's career began in the mid-2010s, in indie stand-up shows in Toronto. They were named to the Bob Curry fellowship for The Second City and worked as a juror for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. [3] [4] In 2017, Flare named them one of Canada's Top 100 Notable Women. [5] They have written on topics of Korean-Canadian identity and racism in pop culture for publications including Vice and The Globe and Mail . [6] [7] [8]
In 2019, Yim was awarded the Canadian Women Artists' Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts. [9] In May of that year, their play Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful was produced at the National MFA Playwrights Festival. [10] In 2021, Yim became a Lambda Literary Playwriting Fellow. [11]
In 2020, Yim was hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live , becoming the show's first writer to identify as non-binary. [12] In 2023, during the second half of season 48, they became a writing supervisor for the show. [13] In 2025, they announced they had left the show after five seasons. [14]
Yim uses they/them pronouns. [15] [16] They graduated from Toronto French School in 2013. [17] They have a bachelor's degree in media, gender and English from the University of Toronto and a Master of Fine Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. [18]