Big changes are coming for Saturday Night Livewhich has now cut three comedians from the cast and added three newcomers for the historic 50th season opener premiering on September 28.

Three new comedians—Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline—have been added to the show as featured players. At the same time, three existing featured players—Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker—have been promoted to the main cast, while a fourth, Chloe Troast, will not be returning after just one season on the show.

Players who are featured are considered main cast once they reach their third season, but many don’t make it past their first or second season. Troast announced on Instagram that she wasn’t asked to return to the show for its 50th season: “I wish I could go back and be with all the amazing friends I made there, it really felt like home. But that wasn’t going to happen,” she wrote.

In addition to Troast, cast members Punkie Johnson and Molly Kearney were also asked not to return for season 50. While Kearney, the show’s first non-binary cast member, shared that she was “so grateful” for her time on the show, Johnson indicated that while there was “no hard feelings” over her departure, she “didn’t really feel like I fit in,” so parting ways with the show was “a mutual thing.”

As for the new faces joining the show in the upcoming season, they come from a wide range of comedy backgrounds. Ashley Padilla, a member of the Groundlings sketch troupe, has appeared on Curb your enthusiasm and NBC’s Night court.

Jane Wickline, a TikToker with a fair number of followers, often plays different characters in her own sketch videos and as part of the TikTok comedy show Stapleview.

And stand-up comedian Emil Wakim opened for Roy Wood Jr., Nikki Glaser and Hasan Minhaj and made his TV debut on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in 2022. His material includes a bit on Israel and Palestine, as the Lebanese-American comedian jokes that he seems “on both sides” of the conflict.

SNL returns later this month, just in time to cover the final weeks of the presidential race. While Maya Rudolph will reprise her role as Kamala Harris and James Austin Johnson will likely continue his Donald Trump impersonation, it’s not yet clear who their VP picks, J.D. Vance or Tim Walz, will play. Steve Martin, an immediate fan favorite due to his resemblance to the Minnesota governor, publicly turned down the role because, as he put it, “I’m not an impersonator.”

The Daily Beast suggested Paul Giamatti, Lewis Black and Danny DeVito as possible options to play Walz, and Aidy Bryant, Taran Killam and Zach Galifianakis as a few choices for Vance. The Ohio senator appears to be a coveted role for comedian Tim Heidecker, who made an audition tape as Vance (complete with considerable eyeliner) in order to throw his hat in the ring for the part.