The second to do so, 18 years later, was the Golden Globe-winning comedian turned rapper and Crazy Rich Asians star, who also displayed her penchant for dancing to classic game show theme songs in, arguably, the funniest sketch of the night.
In her Saturday Night Live monologue, Awkwafina shared that her first visit to Rockefeller Center was as a child who just “wanted to be near the building” when Lucy Liu made history as the show’s first host of Asian descent in 2000.
Perhaps whenever she returns to the big screen in either Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings or the live action update of The Little Mermaid, Awkwafina can make her return to SNL because we are convinced there is still much more we have yet to learn about her.