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Bergen County Native Jon Rudnitsky Joining 'Saturday Night Live', Report States
26-year-old stand-up comedian from Harrington Park joins SNL as a featured player.
Stand-up comedian and Bergen County native Jon Rudnitsky has joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live” as a featured player, TheWrap reports.
Rudnitsky, who hails from Harrington Park, is the only newcomer for the sketch comedy show’s 41st season, the report states. All of the show’s Season 40 players are returning.
Rudnitsky spent most of childhood and teenage years performing in musicals and on stage at the Comic Strip in New York City, his website states.
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Rudnitsky studied acting at the University of Southern California and is a graduate of the school’s Acting Conservatory program. He received the John Ritter Memorial Award for Outstanding Comic Performance and won the Laugh Factory’s Laugh Bowl Comedy Competition.
He has made several viral YouTube parodies of “House of Cards Junkie” and ”True Detective Oscars,” which was featured on Buzzfeed.
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