Saturday Night Live Nasim Pedrad star is set to play the female lead in NBC’s John Mulaney comedy pilot, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The ensemble comedy was created, written by and stars stand-up comedian Mulaney (a writer on SNL) and is based loosely on his life. Pedrad, who currently ranks as SNL’s longest-running tenured female cast member after the departure of Kristen Wiig and Abby Elliott, will play Jane, the sweet, intelligent and lazy grade school teacher who doesn’t love her job and wants to make changes but she’s addicted to procrastinating.
She joins a cast that also includes Martin Short and Elliott Gould in the multicamera comedy pilot. Mulaney will pen the pilot and executive produce the Universal Television, Broadway Video and 3 Arts entry alongside SNL’s Michaels, Andrew Singer, Dave Becky and David Miner.
Should the comedy move to series, Pedrad would leave NBC’s late-night sketch show alongside Mulaney.
