Alex English is an American comedian who joined Saturday Night Live as a writer in 2021.
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan.
Alex has written for such shows as The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET and The Fix with Jimmy Carr on Netflix.
He has made appearances on Night Train with Wyatt Cenac on STARZ and Funny How? on Viceland.
Colin Jost and Michael Che, co-anchors of the wildly popular Saturday Night Live Weekend Update sketch, host a 60-minute live stand-up special featuring a mix of up-and-coming and established comics hand-selected and curated by the pair.
Comedian and disrupter extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and her team of activists crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture icons and next-gen comics fuel this six-year road film activating small-town folks to rebuild vandalized clinics, exposing wrongdoer politicians, domestic terrorists, and media neglect as the race to the bottom ensues.