The missing Latino ‘Saturday Night Live’ cast members

By Felix Sanchez, Washington Post – Letters to the Editor

Hank Stuever’s Dec. 19 Style review of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” [“It’s still a good try!”] limited the context to a racial perspective. This season, controversy swirled around the show’s lack of female African American cast members, but journalists failed to note that the “SNL” cast also had no Latinos and no Asians.

In fact, in the show’s 39 seasons, it has never had a Latina cast member. Only two Latinos have ever been hired as cast members: Chilean American Horatio Sanz, who left the show in 2006, and Fred Armisen, whose mother is Venezuelan and who left the cast last season .

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