It looks like Saturday Night Live will be adding two new women to the cast this season, Brooklyn comic Jenny Slate (left) and L.A. Upright Citizen Nasim Pedrad.

 

NBC hasn't confirmed or denied the news yet, but The Comic's Comic announced it yesterday, based on the assurances of "knowledgable folk," and Rachel Sklar, writing at Mediaite, says, "in our experience,

 

SNL official releases tend to lag quite a bit behind comedy-circle gossip."

Sklar notes that the addition of Slate and Pedrad "brings the [male to female] ratio to 4:3 –

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The story broke last night that Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad are the newest cast-members to be joining this season's cast of Saturday Night Live. I've been thinking about this post for a few days, ever since I found out but was sworn to secrecy, knowing that when the news finally, officially broke I would have to (and also WANT TO) write about it. In the end, I think the best way to go about it is just honesty: Jenny Slate is a really great friend of mine, and I could not be happier or prouder or more excited about this amazing news. So, you know, AHHHHHHHHH.

If it wasn't this it would have been something else. Jenny's star been had on the rise. Her

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