Grace Reiter and Saidah Belo-Osagie made TikTok laugh before SNL

These days, "Saturday Night Live" often brings aboard new cast members who have made their names online, and this season is a case in point: Grace Reiter and Saidah Belo-Osagie are joining Season 52, which begins Sept. 26.

Reiter has amassed over 5.4 million followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, while Belo-Osagie accumulated over 100,000 followers. Here's everything you need to know about the two digital comedians.

Reiter's internet comedy spans nearly a decade, starting in 2018, when she was still in high school, and throughout her time as an Ace Hardware employee. Her comedic sensibilities have always been off-kilter – one of her first viral videos, shared in January 2020, has her playing an American Girl Doll that came to life at night, seen dancing like a diva marionette for 10 seconds. That's all she needed to achieve over 13 million views.

She's since accrued more than 4 million followers on TikTok alone. And her mastery of the short-form video has led to longer projects. In November 2025, she and her friends tried to recreate "The Hunger Games" movie from memory in a 42-minute-long parody film called "The Hunger Games (but better)" – it's amassed 14 million YouTube views.

Original source: https://www.usatoday.com/entertainment/