Bowen Yang, The Wedding Banquet and Lily Gladstone
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,
AEW wrestler Anthony Bowens has extended a highly unusual invite to SNL star Bowen Yang after the comedian made a wrestling reference last weekend.
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
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.
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:
Last year, fans speculated that there was bad blood between the two stars after noticing an “awkward” interaction during one episode. In January 2024, Chappelle made a surprise appearance on an SNL episode that was hosted by Madame Web star Dakota Johnson with musical guest Justin Timberlake.
The BFI Flare opening gala on March 19 follows the world premiere of Andrew Ahn's film at the Sundance Film Festival.
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.
The cast of "The Wedding Banquet" had a blast filming the remake of the 1993, all except for Joan Chen and writer-director Andrew Ahn.
The Rules of Culture, Volume 1' is Cohen’s first acquisition for his imprint at the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
"The Wedding Banquet," starring Bowen Yang, Lily Gladstone and Kelly Marie Tran, premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Monday.