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Ashley Padilla has booked her first late-night interview.
The fast-rising Saturday Night Live star will guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers next Thursday, December 11. The visit marks her first interview on any late-night show.
Padilla’s star has been on the rise at Saturday Night Live this season. The featured player, now in her second year with the show, this fall has turned out acclaimed performances in sketches like “Office Birthday Surprise” and last weekend’s “Haircut.”
Booking that first late-night interview can be a rite of passage for SNL cast members, and can be seen as a vote of confidence in a performer by the network. Padilla arrived to SNL with sketch comedy experience from The Groundlings, and had been racking up impressive screen time on the show since Season 51 began. According to the Saturday Night Network, Padilla has racked up the most screen time of any cast member this year, and became the first featured player in the history of SNL to lead the cast in number of sketch appearances a quarter of the way into the season.
Meyers, of course, has welcomed a slew of Saturday Night Live cast members to his program over the years, often commiserating about the shared experience of working in Studio 8H. Past SNLers to make their late-night debut on Late Night included Marcello Hernández, Sarah Sherman, and James Austin Johnson.
Meyers and Padilla will likely have a lot to discuss, coming just days after Melissa McCarthy’s much anticipated return to SNL this weekend.
Since joining SNL, Padilla also appeared in the CBS special Nate Bargatze’s Nashville Christmas, which was produced by Lorne Michaels and penned by SNL writers Mikey Day, Moss Perricone, and Streeter Seidell.
