Devon Walker: 5 Things To Know About One Of SNL’s Newest Cast Members

Studio 8H is going to spot immoderate caller faces this fall! The formed of Saturday Night Live has added 4 caller comedians to the premix after losing 7 members, including 3 of its biggest stars, Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, and Aidy Bryant, pursuing the decision of Season 47. The iconic sketch drama bid announced the caller featured players for the 2022-23 play connected Sept. 15: Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker. Read connected to larn astir Texas-native Devon Walker below.

Devon Walker is 1 of 4 caller formed members connected Season 48 of ‘SNL’ (Photo: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC)

Devon Has Been On The Radar Since 2017

Devon began his stand-up drama vocation successful Texas, and he’s been moving his mode to SNL for years. He was included successful the 2017 Comedy Central “Up Next” showcase and has been featured successful assorted drama festivals specified arsenic Clusterfest, Moontower Comedy Festival, and the Big Sky Comedy Festival, per The Stand. He moved to New York City successful 2018 to prosecute his drama dreams further. Devon partnered with Comedy Central during the 2020 lockdown brought connected by the coronavirus pandemic and created skits for societal media, often collaborating with Grace Kuhlenschmidt, arsenic seen below.

He besides notably paired up with viral comedian Trevor Wallace successful a fake crippled amusement skit for Comedy Central. “The web gave maine 1 (1) occurrence of my ain fake crippled amusement and said that if capable radical ticker they’ll fto maine marque more,” Devon wrote successful the caption that accompanied a clip of him and Trevor interacting. “So if you don’t privation maine to win bash NOT click the nexus successful my bio.”

Just earlier his SNL news, Vulture named him “A Comedian You Should Know”. He’s beauteous impressive!

Devon Co-Wrote His First Television Episode In 2022

Devon is simply a writer connected Netflix’s Big Mouth and the Freeform bid Everything’s Trash. On Sept. 1, 2022, helium celebrated the premiere of an occurrence of Everything’s Trash that helium co-wrote. “First occurrence of tv I ever got to co-write is retired contiguous connected hulu,” helium wrote alongside a screenshot of his penning credit. “There’s a batch of radical I person to convey for it, but I can’t beryllium that earnest online. Now I request y’all to tally them streaming numbers up, I’m tryna bargain a chopper 1 day”.

Devon Is A Huge Fan Of Drake

Drake is 1 of Devon’s favourite artists, which helium has made good known connected his Instagram page. His 2nd post connected Instagram is from Drake’s 2015 Governor’s Ball performance. It’s simply a photograph of Drake connected stage, and helium wrote nary caption with it. Plus, helium utilized a Drake lyric to caption a photo of himself posing with a toddler successful 2019. “I wasn’t hiding my lad from the satellite I -,” helium captioned the picture, which are lyrics from Drake’s 2018 song, “Emotionless”.

One creator Devon intelligibly dislikes, though, is Post Malone. In Aug. 2019, helium tweeted, “truly nary worse feeling than erstwhile a opus sounds bully and you inquire who it’s by and the effect is ‘post malone'”. Another Twitter idiosyncratic replied to the remark and accused the comedian of utilizing “hate”, to which helium answered, “yea antheral that’s the constituent of the tweet”. You can’t triumph them all.

Nick Kroll and Devon Are Friends

Big Mouth co-creator Nick Kroll enlisted Devon to unfastened up for his drama gigs respective times successful 2021, which the rising prima celebrated connected Instagram and called “cool arsenic hell.” It’s not wide if helium started penning for the animated drama bid earlier oregon aft helium opened for Nick.

Being On Time Is Not Devon’s Priority

Never consciousness atrocious if you’re precocious to work. Your occupation knows who you are and should program accordingly. That’s connected them

— Devon Walker (@internetdevon) May 15, 2019

Devon has made 1 happening wide implicit the years: He’s going to amusement up erstwhile helium wants. In 2019, helium offered his chap folks who are ever moving down docket immoderate advice: “Never consciousness atrocious if you’re precocious to work. Your occupation knows who you are and should program accordingly. That’s connected them,” helium wrote. And successful a tweet conscionable a fewer months later, helium updated his followers that helium is inactive prideful astir his tardiness. “my emotion connection is showing up to my workplace 47 minutes precocious similar thing happened,” helium wrote. Well Saturday Night Live, you’ve been warned!