Bowen Yang, Chloe Fineman and Shane Gillis are the new featured players on "Saturday Night Live." (Photo: Courtesy of "Saturday Night Live")

Leslie Jones is leaving, but “Saturday Night Live” is welcoming three new featured players for its upcoming 45th season. 

Presenting … Chloe Fineman, Shane Gillis and Bowen Yang. They’ll join the cast — which includes Kate McKinnon (who re-upped her contract) and Kenan Thompson (who remains the longest-running “SNL” cast member as he also stars in his new “Kenan Show”).

Who are the newbies? Here’s a quick preview of NBC’s new comedic talent, that will be part of the show when “SNL” premieres Sept. 28 with host Woody Harrelson and musical guest Billie Eilish.

Chloe Fineman was a New Face at the 2018 Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal and has been a regular performer at the Groundlings. She has developed a 60k-strong Instagram following (at least that was the count before this announcement) for her impressions of everyone from Marianne Williamson to JoJo Siwa.

Shane Gillis was recently recognized as a New Face at the 2019 Just for Laughs Festival. He’s also on Instagram and has performed a (NSFW) stand-up about how he “just found out” that he’s “fat,” and how he is from a “white trash town.”

Bowen Yang joined “SNL” as a staff writer last season. He has 27K followers on Instagram (as of now) and is perhaps best known for co-hosting the “Las Culturistas” podcast, where he recently interviewed Ilana Glazer and Julie Klausner. He’s played an over-the-top version of designer Alexander Wang on Comedy Central, and appeared on HBO’s “2 Dope Queens,” where he joked (in a NSFW set) that he looked like he got kicked out of a K-Pop group and “went to college at a real estate firm called NYU.”

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