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Saturday Night Live characters appearing on Weekend Update

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Weekend Update has been a platform for Saturday Night Live characters to grow and gain popularity ever since Gilda Radner used it to create Emily Litella and Roseanne Roseannadanna. Many cast members have used Update as the primary vehicle for a certain character. Don Novello was featured almost exclusively on the news segment as his breakout character, Father Guido Sarducci, and Tim Kazurinsky, in the face of Eddie Murphy's overshadowing popularity, created characters almost exclusively for Update. Before becoming an anchor on Update, Colin Quinn used the segment as his main sounding board as well.

Significant characters who appeared chiefly on Weekend Update are listed here in chronological order of their first appearance.

  • Child actor Laura Parsons (Vanessa Bayer)
  • [[Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 2012–13#Arianna Huffington (Nasim Pedrad) - February 11, 2012
  • The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with at a Party|The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with at a Party]] (Cecily Strong) – November 3, 2012 (first overall appearance was on the September 27, 2012 Weekend Update Thursday)
  • Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy (Vanessa Bayer) – December 15, 2012
  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Kate McKinnon) - February 11, 2017
  • The Guy Who Just Bought a Boat (Alex Moffat) – February 11, 2017
  • Angel, Every Boxer's Girlfriend from Every Movie About Boxing Ever|Angel, Every Boxer's Girlfriend from Every Movie About Boxing Ever]] (Heidi Gardner) – November 4, 2017
  • Teen film critic Bailey Gismert (Heidi Gardner) – January 27, 2018
  • Chen Biao (Bowen Yang), a Chinese trade commissioner (or "trade daddy") who is now a health minister because of the coronavirus epidemic. - October 5, 2019
  • Dr. Wayne Wenowdis (Kate McKinnon) – October 10, 2020
  • Crystal Your coworker who is extremely busy doing seemingly nothing (Heidi Gardner) – April 8, 2023

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