While roasting the current events and sex scandals surrounding Roy Moore and Al Franken among others, SNL made history within itself by featuring an East Asian actress in a sketch, giving her speaking lines, and even allowing her to open the show with the world famous phrase “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!”

The sketch featured various kids asking a mall Santa hard-hitting political questions and featured a large amount of diversity in the casting of the children. The Asian girl, who called herself Jenny, enters after another kid speaks about Chinese kids working in factories. Instead of asking for a present, she only hopes that “everything is okay!” She also gets to deliver a jab at media conglomerate Fox News.

At the end of the open, Jenny, Kate McKinnon, and Keenan Thompson all open the show. She was the only one of the kids to get this distinction and possibly the only East Asian American actress to ever have the honor.

Now, it’s worth mentioning that SNL has gotten flack in the past for its stark lack of Asian American representation and diversity. While Iranian actress Nasim Pedrad and Fred Armisan who is a quarter Korean have been prominent actors on the show, Lucy Liu performed as the show’s only East Asian host, andAziz Ansari has acted as the show’s first South Asian host, critics have long lamented how an East Asian actor has never been a featured player or starring cast member in the show’s long history.

Whenever one of the shows Star Trek sketches has necessitated an Asian stand-in for Hikaru Sulu, SNL has called in production designer Akira Yoshimura. In his last performance in the role in May 2016, multiple jokes of how nobody knows or has seen him before were made. That’s right, for the last forty years, they’ve been calling in the same guy without ever hiring an actual East Asian actor who could play such a role.

Earlier that year, a joke where new player Melissa Villa declared “I’m the new Hispanic cast memberand I’ll be playing Asian moderator Elaine Quijano. Because baby steps” also received criticism.

In 2012, Fred Armisen, Cecily Strong, and Nasim Pedrad played “peasant” Chinese laborers in an iPhone factory. And in 2006, white actress Amy Poehler played North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il in yellowface.

SNL has poked holes in its own lack of diversity many times, but its failure to actually address such issues makes its self-aware commentary ring hollow.

Congratulations to “Jenny” for making history. Let’s hope it doesn’t end there!