Abby Elliott and Michaela Watkins New SNL Cast Members

andhave big shoes to fill replacingandon Saturday Night Live.

NBC announced Thursday that Elliott and Watkins will join SNL this week as featured players.

The new comediennes are no strangers to showbiz.

Elliott's father is SNL alum and onetime Letterman sidekick Chris Elliott. She comes from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, an improv/sketch company co-founded by Poehler, and has voiced several episodes of King of the Hill and Mike Judge's upcoming ABC cartoon The Goode Family.

Watkins comes from the Groundlings comedy troupe, launching pad of past SNL players including Will Ferrell, Phil Hartman, Laraine Newman and current cast member Kristen Wiig. She has appeared on Malcolm in the Middle, Without a Trace, Charmed, Californication and The New Adventures of Old Christine.

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