Bowen Yang

Bowen Yang (born November 6, 1990) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and writer. Yang joined the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live as a staff writer in 2018, and was a cast member for seven seasons from 2019 until his departure in 2025. He became the first SNL featured player to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award, in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category, in 2021, the same year he was promoted to repertory status.

Yang was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, to a family that had emigrated from China in 1986. When he was six months old, the family moved to Canada and eventually settled in Brossard, Quebec, before moving to the United States and settling in Aurora, Colorado. He attended Smoky Hill High School, where he was named homecoming king and voted "Most Likely to Be a Cast Member on Saturday Night Live", and graduated in 2008. He went to pre-med classes and graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry before deciding to pursue a career in comedy.

Yang has appeared in the television series Girls5Eva, Ziwe, and The Other Two, and was recurring on Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens. He is also known for his appearances in the LGBTQ romantic comedies Fire Island and Bros, both released in 2022, and in the musical fantasy films Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025). He co-hosts the comedy pop-culture podcast Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers, whom he met at NYU. In January 2019, he was named to Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30 Hollywood & Entertainment list, and he has appeared on the Time 100.