Nwodim was a regular cast member at UCB, where she also performed her one-woman show ''Great Black Women... and Then There's Me''. Also that year, she performed at the CBS Diversity Showcase. Impersonating
Maya Angelou, Nwodim
roasted various celebrities and companies in a 2017
Funny or Die sketch. Nwodim's addition to the cast of
Saturday Night Live, a long-running
NBC sketch-comedy show, as a featured player was announced on September 21, 2018. On September 8, 2020, Nwodim was promoted to a repertory player ahead of the
forty-sixth season of
Saturday Night Live. On April 5, 2025, Nwodim unintentionally put NBC at risk of being fined by the
FCC following a
Weekend Update segment in which her character, "Ms. Eggy," engaged in a call-and-response routine that prompted audience members to shout the word "shit". On May 17, Weekend Update anchor
Colin Jost jokingly introduced Nwodim by saying "You know her, you love her [and] you got her fined by the FCC". Ultimately, NBC was likely not fined because of this incident. On September 12, 2025, Nwodim announced in an Instagram post that she had decided to leave
Saturday Night Live ahead of its
fifty-first season. ==Personal life==