Chris Redd has been a cast member of Saturday Night Live since 2017. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2018 for co-writing the SNL song “Come Back Barack”. He is also known for his roles in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016), Disjointed (2017–2018), and Kenan (2021–present).His celebrity impressions on the show have included U.S. Senator Cory Booker, Kanye West, and Sterling K. Brown. Redd’s debut stand-up comedy album, But Here We Are, was released by Comedy Central Records in March 2019. As of February 2021, Redd co-stars in the comedy television series Kenan, alongside his SNL castmate Kenan Thompson.[ Their ongoing roles in both shows resulted in frequent travel between New York City, where SNL is filmed, and Los Angeles, where Kenan is filmed. Redd is slated to appear in the upcoming film Spinning Gold as Frankie Crocker, the disc jockey for the first black music radio station in New York. Other upcoming projects include the Lorne Michaels–produced comedy series Bust Down, in which Redd plays a discontented casino employee, and a stand-up comedy special on HBO Max.
