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Bowen Yang on Historic Emmy Nomination for ‘SNL’ and How His Iceberg Character Broke Through

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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBowen Yang became the first featured player on “Saturday Night Live” to get an Emmy nomination Tuesday, securing a berth in the outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series category.

It almost didn’t happen.Yang originally considered nominating an episode in which he appeared in many sketches across the course of an evening.

Instead, after he “consulted with multiple people,” he opted for an episode which generated a lot of notice for his offbeat portrayal of an iceberg that sunk the Titanic, from an episode during the 46th season that was hosted by Carey Mulligan. “It’s nice,” said Yang about the nomination.

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