For Bowen Yang , joining SNL as a writer in 2018, and then becoming a castmember the following year, was the fulfillment of a prophesy: during his senior year of high school, Yang had been voted "Most Likely to be on SNL ." Looking back now, though, he insists that the superlative was "totally incidental."

"It's like their way of calling me a hammy kid, basically, which I was," he says. "I never ever ever set my sights on SNL , but I was only the most enthusiastic fan. I would bring VHS tapes to school … and just, like, show people when there was a substitute teacher in class."

SNL wasn't the only show that left its mark on Yang; he initially studied chemistry and pre-med in college after becoming "obsessed" with Sandra Oh 's character on Grey's Anatomy , Yang says. "

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