According to Deadline, Saturday Night Live is about to get hit with an even more major exodus of talent this year than previously reported, in addition to news that broke earlier today that Pete Davidson was exiting the sketch series.
If you lump in Davidson, the four performers represent a ridiculous 37 seasons of time on the NBC series. Bryant, McKinnon, and Davidson joined the show in the same year. Bryant, Mooney, and Davidson have all pursued film opportunities outside of SNL.
Cecily Strong is the only current cast member with 10 seasons in the series. Please take this as your regular reminder that, at 19 seasons on SNL, and 6 on All That, Kenan Thompson has now spent fully 56 percent of his entire life on the casts of televised sketch comedy shows. Man is a machine.
The series has favored long cast tenures in recent years, and SNL boss Lorne Michaels had previously indicated that this might be a year of change. Before 2000, the only performers to last a decade or longer on the show were Tim and Darrell. The longer runs have been made possible by an increasing tolerance for cast members missing shows to work on other projects; Bryant, McKinnon, and Davidson have all skipped parts of recent seasons while pursuing outside opportunities.
According to Deadline, the finale of the show might be the last one for the departing stars and will be hosted byNatasha Lyonne.
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