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Ellen DeGeneres Net Worth
Ellen DeGeneres is an American comedian, television host, actress, writer, and producer. She starred in the sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003.
Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s and included a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. As a film actress, DeGeneres starred in Mr. Wrong (1996), EDtv (1999), and The Love Letter (1999), and provided the voice of Dory in the Pixar animated films Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016); for Nemo, she was awarded the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first time an actress won a Saturn Award for a voice performance. In 2010, she was a judge on American Idol for its ninth season.
She starred in two television sitcoms, Ellen from 1994 to 1998 and The Ellen Show from 2001 to 2002. During the fourth season of Ellen in 1997, she came out as a lesbian in an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Her character, Ellen Morgan, also came out to a therapist played by Winfrey, and the series went on to explore various LGBT issues, including the coming-out process. In 2008, she married her longtime girlfriend Portia de Rossi.
Colin Jost is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who has a net worth of $8 million. He is best known for hosting the Weekend Update segment with Michael Che on “Saturday Night Live.”
As a cast member and writer of Saturday Night Live, he receives a salary of $25,000 for every episode. Considering he appears in 21 episodes throughout the year, he earns $525,000 for every season of the show.
The comedian initially joined as a reporter and copy editor at Staten Island Advance. He then sent a writing packet to Saturday Night Live that earned him a writing position in 2005.
Jost was the show’s writing supervisor from 2009 to 2012 and the co-head writer from 2012 to 2015. He even performed as a stand-up comedian and appeared on other popular shows.
Following the 2013 season, Lorne Michaels asked Jost if he was interested in doing the Weekend Update feature because Seth Meyers was leaving to host “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Jost accepted and began doing the Weekend Update feature in the next season.
He has stated that he draws from the work of Norm Macdonald and Tina Fey for his Weekend Update material and the comedic tone. He also wrote an episode for Seth Meyer’s show as well as an episode of the television series “Funny as Hell.”
Although he mainly does the Weekend Update features, he occasionally appears in other sketches. He portrayed John Kasich in a sketch of the Republican primary debates for the 2016 presidential election cycle, and for the 2020 democratic primary debates, he portrayed Pete Buttigieg who he had lived with while they both attended Harvard. In 2017, he returned to his role as head writer for “Saturday Night Live.”
Colin Jost and Scarlett Johansson met on the set of Saturday Night Live in 2006, and they started a relationship in 2017. They got engaged in 2019 and married in 2020.
Michael Che is an American actor, comedian, and writer who has a net worth of $4 million.
He is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, where he serves as co-anchor on Weekend Update and co-head writer alongside Colin Jost. Che and Jost co-hosted the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2018.
Che’s SNL salary is $15,000 per episode which works out to around $315,000 per season since there are 21 episodes in one season. The salary of cast members increases depending on how long they have been part of SNL. Reportedly, first-year cast members make $7,000 per episode, with the second-year cast making $8,000 per episode. The ones who have made it to their fifth season and beyond make $15,000 per episode.
Che has won Writers Guild of America Awards for Comedy/Variety – Sketch Series for SNL in 2017 and 2018, and has been nominated for multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
Che was briefly a correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and has previously worked as a writer for Saturday Night Live. At the end of September 2014, he became a Weekend Update co-anchor for the 40th season of Saturday Night Live alongside Colin Jost, replacing Cecily Strong.
On May 6, 2021 Che launched his own show on HBO Max called That Damn Michael Che.
The series makes light of current events in society and recurring themes such as love, unemployment, and loss. The episodes are sketches and vignettes from Che’s perspective.
It stars other known personalities and his fellow cast members from SNL, including Method Man, Cecily Strong, Omari Hardwick, Colin Jost and more. The show has six episodes, with each episode illustrating different aspects of navigating life.
Che has also worked in several other productions, such as Lyle (2014), Detroiters (2017), The Other Two (2019), and Sesame Street (2019), to name a few.
Peter “Pete” Davidson is an American comedian and actor from New York who has a net worth of $6 million. Davidson is a cast member on Saturday Night Live. He has also appeared on the MTV shows Guy Code, Wild ‘n Out, and Philosophy.
He has performed stand-up comedy on Adam DeVine’s House Party, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Comedy Underground with Dave Attell, and guest-starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
He is also famous for dating many famous women, notably Ariana Grande.
Before doing standup, Davidson made on-screen appearances for MTV. He appeared on MTV comedy series Failosophy, PDA and Moms and Guy Code. This is where he was first able to display his vibrant character and sense of humor on television.
Davidson’s career took off when he landed a spot on Saturday Night Live’s cast. He became the youngest cast member ever and his debut garnered great reviews from critics. This was largely due to a very funny skit with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson where they awkwardly ended up in the “69” sex position.
Adding to Davidson’s fame, in 2015 he participated in Comedy Central’s Roast of Justin Bieber and held his own with the likes of well-established comedians such as Will Ferrel, Hannibal Burres, Chris D’Elia, and others.
As years went on, Davidson became a fan favorite on SNL and is now one of the highest-paid cast members. His fame from the show allowed him to gain more attention from the film industry and he was able to star and produce a plethora of movies.
