Who Is Chloe Troast? Everything to Know About SNL’s New Featured Player

Live from New York, it’s… Saturday Night Live‘s newest cast member, Chloe Troast!

The stand-up, improv and sketch comedian will arrive at Studio 8H as SNL‘s sole new hire this fall, so all eyes will be on Troast when she makes her debut on Oct. 14 (NBC, 11:30/10:30c). In the meantime, here’s a bit of background on the featured player:

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The New Jersey native was recently named to Just For Laughs’ New Faces of Comedy Class of 2023. In September, her animated series DOHL’S was featured as part of Adult Swim’s Smalls shorts program:

Troast previously co-created and starred in the 2021 web-series The Basics, which featured SNL‘s Martin Herlihy, Ben Marshall and John Higgins. Later on, she was enlisted by the trio to appear in the movie Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, which begins streaming Friday, Nov. 17 on Peacock. Additionally, she has a supporting role in the forthcoming Kiernan Shipka rom-com Sweethearts, which is awaiting a release date.

Troast is also no stranger to the New York comedy scene. She currently hosts Cherry, a weekly stand-up showcase at Public Hotel’s ArtSpace, with fellow comedians Auguste White and Moss Perricone. Since launching in April, Cherry has welcomed such guests as Hasan Minhaj, Rachel Sennott and SNL‘s Andrew Dismukes.

She also makes appearances at City Winery and The Slipper Room, where she regularly embodies an Old Hollywood character named Pepper Slit.

Troast will be one of five featured players on SNL this fall. She joins returnees Marcello Hernández, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker, all of whom are back for their second seasons. Also returning for Season 49 are repertory players Dismukes, Michael Che, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Punkie Johnson, Colin Jost, Ego Nwodim, Kenan Thompson and Bowen Yang, and the newly promoted James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman.

Get a taste of Troast’s humor below, then hit the comments and tell us if you’re looking forward to seeing her on SNL.

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