From JFL to SNL: Who's Next?

Exploring the pipeline of New Faces to not-ready-for-primetime cast offers at Saturday Night Live

Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival puts this tagline on its 2021 New Faces: Characters showcase: Catch the best new solo sketch comics before your only option is to see them “Live, from New York…”

That’s a pretty big sell, right?

JFL outright boasting about how it serves as a pipeline and scouting agent for Saturday Night Live. How true has that been? In…