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Bowen Yang is ready to celebrate half a century of Saturday Night Live with cast members from every generation in SNL50: The Anniversary Special. As the 4x Emmy nominee stopped by Deadline’s Sundance 2025 Studio with his The Wedding Banquet co-stars and director Andrew Ahn,

The Wedding Banquet, which is being distributed by Bleecker Street film company, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Monday. The film’s director Andrew Ahn told Variety ahead of the movie’s Sundance premiere that he saw the original version of The Wedding Banquet when he was just eight years old.

Andrew Ahn directs a cast that also includes Joan Chen, ‘Minari’ Oscar winner Youn Yuh-Jung and newcomer Ha Gi-Chan in this Seattle-set reimagining of Ang Lee’s international breakthrough.

Writer/director Ahn co-wrote the 2025 take on “The Wedding Banquet” with original co-screenwriter James Schamus, who co-wrote the 1993 film with Lee.

The trailer for Wicked and Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang's remake of The Wedding Banquet has been released. The original 1993 movie focuses on a bisexual Taiwanese man who has to marry a mainland Chinese woman to hide his gay relationship and make his traditional parents happy.

AEW wrestler Anthony Bowens has extended a highly unusual invite to SNL star Bowen Yang after the comedian made a wrestling reference last weekend.

Bowen Yang’s brand of comedy has produced some amazing moments, including the iconic Titanic iceberg sketch, but he admitted there have been times since going from a writer to a cast member in 2019 that some leaned too hard on just his Asian ethnicity and/or queerness. It’s something he’s apparently spoken out about, too, as he continued:

AEW's Anthony Bowens took to Twitter/X and posted a picture of Yang. He playfully wrote that he'd like to invite Bowen Yang to AEW to be in his new tag team called "Bowens Yang". Ok hear me out, I’d like to invite Bowen Yang to @AEW to be in my new tag team called “Bowens Yang”. What do you think? pic.twitter.com/3eDU81S55y

Rachel Sennott and Bowen Yang will announce the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards. The two actors will come together on Thursday for a live presentation from the Academy's Samuel Goldwyn Theater to reveal the nominees in all 23 Academy Award categories.

In the final few moments of the Jan. 18 episode, which featured Chappelle hosting the show for the fourth time, several SNL cast members and musical guest GloRilla joined the comedian on stage to bid the audience farewell. During the goodbyes, Chappelle and Yang briefly hugged.

After a slight postponement, Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott will announce the nominees for the 97th Academy Awards on Thursday