"People Were Doing Crazy Drugs At The Time": 30 Surprising Reasons "SNL" Cast Members Quit Or Got Fired

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Saturday Night Live has featured immoderate beauteous iconic performers implicit the years. Of course, they don't enactment everlastingly (except for Kenan Thompson). Some actors enactment mum connected wherefore they discontinue oregon got fired, but galore person been amazingly candid!

Here are 30 erstwhile SNL formed members who revealed wherefore they near the show:

1. Seasons 44 to 50 formed subordinate Ego Nwodim told Sherri, "It's similar being successful a marriage. I've ne'er done it before, but that amusement was my longest narration ever. I'm not a commitment-phobe, but I heard erstwhile you're married, you get the seven-year itch. And it's like, I wanna day different people! I wanna spot immoderate different privates! It felt similar the clip to marque abstraction for thing other for me."

She besides spoke astir the value of practice successful the cast, saying, "I felt honored to beryllium the seventh Black pistillate successful that cast. I anticipation that determination volition beryllium much Black women. Punkie Johnson came connected the amusement aft me. Who knows who other they'll find arsenic they research and question retired different talents? I bash judge I represented a myriad of characters, antithetic types of characters. Some radical didn't ever drawback that nuance, but I bash consciousness similar I got the accidental to represent, and that was truly important to me."

2. On the Fly connected the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast, Season 46 done 49 formed subordinate Punkie Johnson said, "Mutually, we conscionable understood that it was not my zone... I ne'er grew up successful sketch, I ne'er went to sketch school, and I didn't truly consciousness similar I fit. [SNL] is for a antithetic benignant of person."

She wanted to permission aft Season 48, but her squad convinced her to enactment connected due to the fact that she didn't person a plan. On the adjacent season, she was "killing it" with the assistance of writer Ben Silva, who "knew however to talk Punkie." However, she "spiraled" aft helium left. She said, "I opened up the level [on Instagram] for questions, and everything was going good until idiosyncratic asked, 'What are you looking guardant to astir adjacent season?' I ain't gonna prevarication to my friends, truthful I conscionable said, 'Oh, I ain't coming back.'"

3. Season 1 formed subordinate Chevy Chase told the Late Show with David Letterman, "The existent crushed has not been publicized correctly. It was a girl, and everybody connected the amusement knew that, peculiarly Lorne [Michaels], with whom I shared everything. He was similar a member to me. But determination was a miss who lived successful Los Angeles who I was infatuated with and wanted to marry, and she wouldn't determination to New York."

"When I accidental infatuated, I, you know, had an erection each day, each day, conscionable reasoning astir her... I said to Lorne, 'She's not gonna move. She said if I don't travel backmost aft 1 twelvemonth present — and I was the lone 1 with a declaration — 'I'm not gonna wed you. I'm gonna spell retired with Warren Beatty and radical similar that.' And I went bats! I truly near due to the fact that of a girl," helium said.

4. Season 31 done 38 formed subordinate Bill Hader told Interview magazine, "SNL is truly hard to bash erstwhile you're azygous and surviving alone. And past it's beauteous pugnacious erstwhile you're married, due to the fact that you don't spot your spouse. And past you bring kids into it, and the infinitesimal our archetypal girl was born, it was like, 'Oh, man, this is getting truly hard.' And past we had a 2nd child. By then, Andy [Samberg] and Kristen [Wiig] had left, and I was proceeding rumblings of different radical leaving. It was clip to determination to LA and marque a cleanable break."

"I felt similar I was successful a bully spot with the show. I felt similar each play I was getting a small spot better, and truthful alternatively of peaking, I was like, 'Oh, this is simply a bully clip to leave.' Lorne was truly chill astir it. I had made The Skeleton Twins, and this different happening called The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, 2 indie movies. But it wasn't similar I was going to LA having a clump of worldly successful the chamber," helium said.

5. During the 2019 Evening with Stephen Colbert event, Season 8 done 10 formed subordinate Julia Louis-Dreyfus described her clip connected SNL arsenic "a beauteous brutal clip but a precise informative time."

She said, "There were plentifulness of radical connected the amusement who were incredibly funny. But I was unbelievably naive, and I didn't truly recognize however the dynamics of the spot worked. It was precise sexist, precise sexist. People were doing brainsick drugs astatine the time. I was oblivious. I conscionable thought, 'Oh wow. He's got a batch of energy.' ... I learned I wasn't going to bash anymore of this amusement concern crap unless it was fun. I don't person to locomotion and crawl done this benignant of nasty solid if it's not yet going to beryllium fulfilling, and truthful that's however I benignant of moved guardant from that moment. I benignant of applied the fun-meter to each occupation since, and that has been precise helpful."

6. Season 34 to 38 formed subordinate Nasim Pedrad near SNL to prima arsenic John Mulaney's roommate connected the ill-fated sitcom Mulaney. She told Grantland, "When I archetypal signed connected to Mulaney, each I knew was that we were going to sprout a pilot. I ne'er privation to get up of myself with opportunities due to the fact that successful this industry, things tin alteration truthful quickly. And arsenic rapidly arsenic thing tin travel together, it tin autumn isolated oregon not get picked up. But 1 day, we recovered retired that Fox had ordered 16 episodes of the show, and it became wide to maine that it would beryllium virtually intolerable to beryllium connected 2 TV shows astatine the aforesaid time. It made consciousness to permission SNL now."

She added, "I don't deliberation it's ever casual to permission SNL, lone due to the fact that you cognize however peculiar that spot is. I surely lucked retired successful that I had the accidental to spell and dive into a task besides produced by Lorne Michaels. I surely wouldn't permission SNL for immoderate project. But erstwhile Mulaney came to maine with the show, I couldn't walk it up. It benignant of felt similar a no-brainer."

7. Seasons 31 to 37 formed subordinate Andy Samberg told Hart to Heart, "It was a large choice. For me, it was like, I can't really endure it anymore. But I didn't privation to leave. Physically and emotionally, like, I was falling isolated successful my life... Physically, it was taking a dense toll connected me, and I got to a spot wherever I was, like, I hadn't slept successful 7 years, basically. We were penning worldly for the unrecorded amusement Tuesday nighttime each night, the array work Wednesday, past being told, 'Now travel up with a integer short,' truthful constitute each Thursday [and] Thursday night, don't sleep, get up, sprout Friday, edit each nighttime Friday nighttime and into Saturday, truthful it's fundamentally similar 4 days a week you're not sleeping, for 7 years. So I conscionable kinda fell isolated physically."

The amusement wasn't acceptable for him to determination on. He said, "They told maine consecutive up, 'We similar you would stay,' and I was like, 'Oh, that makes it harder.' But I conscionable was like, I deliberation to get backmost to a feeling of, like, intelligence and carnal health, I person to bash it. So I did it and it was a precise hard choice."

8. Seasons 16 done 20 formed subordinate Adam Sandler was fired astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic his champion friend, Chris Farley. Adam told the Daily Beast, "We kind of discontinue astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic being fired. It was the extremity of the tally for us. The information that maine and him got fired? Who knows. We were connected it for a fewer years, had our run, and everything happens for a reason. We benignant of understood due to the fact that we did our thing. It wounded a batch astatine the clip due to the fact that we were young and didn't cognize wherever we were going, but it each worked out."

He added, "I miss Farley. He was a circuit de unit connected the amusement and dominated. He could predominate anybody. There's cipher that tin locomotion into a country and instrumentality implicit amended than Farley. I haven't seen anyone since he's gone that's taken that spot. He's the strongest beingness I've ever seen."

9. Seasons 26 to 32 formed subordinate Maya Rudolph told Entertainment Tonight, "I was truthful bittersweet erstwhile I left. I deliberation it's OK to, like, instrumentality that moment, but I besides consciousness similar it's bully to spot the remainder of the world. You benignant of forget, erstwhile you're successful SNL world, [that] there's a batch retired there. And they should spell person fun."

10. Seasons 26 done 31 formed subordinate Tina Fey near the amusement to absorption connected her ain series, 30 Rock.

She told The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, "I'm retired of the fake quality concern now. The caller show's going to instrumentality a batch of time... This is the large leap I'm making, it's a amusement astir moving astatine a late-night drama show. I'm precise creative."

11. In 2019, Season 35 formed subordinate Jenny Slate unopen down longstanding rumors that she was fired from SNL a decennary anterior aft accidentally swearing during a unrecorded broadcast. She told InStyle, "By the way, everyone ever thinks I got fired for saying fuck: I didn't, that's not wherefore I got fired. I conscionable didn't beryllium there. I didn't bash a bully job, I didn't click. I person nary thought however Lorne felt astir me. All I cognize is, it didn't enactment for me, and I got fired."

She continued, "I americium a pistillate who has made truthful overmuch of her ain work, and I've had a assortment of successes — immoderate small, immoderate personal, immoderate public. I'm a New York Times best-selling children's author, each of this worldly that is truthful intentional and worthy, but radical often privation to framework my occurrence arsenic an ascent from 1 nonaccomplishment that was the determination of immoderate antheral who didn't recognize maine 10 years ago. I conscionable wonder, if I were a man, would radical beryllium truthful obsessed with the information that I said a swear?"

12. On Instagram, Seasons 48 to 50 formed subordinate Devon Walker called SNL "toxic arsenic hell." However, helium aboriginal told Rolling Stone, "To beryllium frank, I conjecture the champion mode I enactment it is, like, maine and the amusement benignant of looked astatine each other, and we decided unneurotic that it was clip to spell our abstracted ways. I deliberation I felt acceptable to permission the show, and I deliberation the amusement felt acceptable to permission me. I was conscionable acceptable to bash thing else. We some felt similar it was time. This was specified a big-time committedness and beingness commitment. There's been a batch of beingness worldly that I consciousness similar I've had to miss retired on. And I felt acceptable to bash a antithetic mentation of my life. I deliberation that maine and the amusement are some acceptable to crook the page."

13. Season 14 formed subordinate Ben Stiller discontinue aft conscionable 4 episodes. He told the NYT podcast The Interview, "[Lorne Michaels] was like, 'Okay. Ben's gonna bash what Ben's gonna do.' It wasn't great, but I knew that I couldn't bash good determination due to the fact that I wasn't large astatine unrecorded performing. I got excessively nervous. I didn't bask it, and I wanted to beryllium making abbreviated films. So, like, successful the moment, determination were reasons why, and I had this accidental to bash this MTV show."

14. Seasons 42 to 47 formed subordinate Melissa Villaseñor told The Last Laugh, "I gave myself a batch of clip successful the summertime to deliberation connected it and benignant of play it retired successful my caput if I spell back. It was, I think, astatine the extremity of the day, astir my intelligence health. Last season, I had a mates of panic attacks. I deliberation it was, I was struggling and…I ever felt similar I was connected the borderline of a cliff each week."

She realized she didn't privation to bash that to herself anymore. She continued, "It's not similar the amusement was mean toward maine oregon anyone. I deliberation I'm an introvert. I deliberation erstwhile I'm successful a large radical of a batch of astonishing radical and everyone's speaking implicit [each other], I deliberation I thin to get tiny and I get nervous, similar wherever bash I fit? What americium I expected to do? ... I was like, 'I deliberation I'm OK. I consciousness there's thing other I consciousness like, "Oh, I request to beryllium sharing this. I privation to bash this connected the show." I deliberation I'm ready.' There was conscionable thing telling maine I deliberation I could portion ways."

15. Seasons 31 to 37 formed subordinate Kristen Wiig told Marie Claire, "I cognize a batch of radical astir apt assume, 'Oh, she's leaving due to the fact that she is going to beryllium doing movies present and things similar that,' which I volition be. But I conscionable ever knew it was going to beryllium seven, and that was it. I deliberation possibly if I were 22, I could spot myself staying a small bit, but it conscionable felt similar the close time."

"[The past episode] was precise emotional. I conscionable wanted to get done it without breaking down successful each sketch. Because thing says drama similar breaking down," she said.

16. As an already established name, Robert Downey Jr. was hired for SNL Season 11 to gully successful caller viewers. However, aft ratings dropped to the lowest they'd ever been, Lorne Michaels fired Robert alongside astir of the cast.

The histrion told The Off-Camera Show, "I learned truthful overmuch successful that twelvemonth astir what I wasn't. I was not idiosyncratic who was going to travel up with a catchphrase. I was not idiosyncratic who was going to bash impressions. I was idiosyncratic who was precise ill-suited for rapid-fire sketch comedy. I was not of that ilk of The Groundlings. I'd ne'er been portion of immoderate improv group, truthful I was kinda like, 'Wow, this seems truly hard and similar a batch of work.' But I would inactive accidental that, to this day, there's not a much breathtaking 90 you tin have, whether you are immoderate bully oregon not."

17. Season 11 formed subordinate Joan Cusack was besides fto spell astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Robert Downey Jr. She told Fresh Air, "It wasn't working, and it wasn't moving for me, too. I was miserable. I deliberation I coiled up successful the hospital, actually. I had, like, immoderate surgery, and it's, like, horrible."

18. On Instagram, Season 50 formed subordinate Emil Wakim said, "i won't beryllium returning to snl adjacent year. it was a gut punch of a telephone to get but i'm truthful grateful for my clip there. one was astatine six flags celebrating my friends 36th day and went connected a truly affectional locomotion done bugs bunny parkland and stared retired crossed daffy duck water reasoning astir life."

He continued, "every clip one scanned into the gathering one would deliberation however insane it is to get to enactment there. it was the astir terrifying, thrilling, and rewarding acquisition of my beingness and one volition miss it dearly and each the superb radical that enactment determination that made it consciousness similar a home. convey u to lorne for taking a accidental connected maine and changing my life. one was truthful fortunate to bring immoderate of myself successful determination and accidental things one believed successful and i'm excited for immoderate section comes next. here's to making much creation without compromise. onwards and upwards."

19. Seasons 28 to 34 formed subordinate Amy Poehler discontinue SNL to focus connected her ain show, Parks and Recreation, which was primitively planned arsenic a spinoff of The Office.

She told the LA Times, "It's gonna beryllium truly hard — Boyz II Men hard — to accidental goodbye to yesterday. SNL was dangerous, late-night, last-minute, and star-studded, but similar immoderate bully drug, you request to cognize erstwhile to enactment it down."

20. On the 4th occurrence of Peacock's docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night, Season 11 formed subordinate Damon Wayans said that the writers "would sprout [his] ideas down" and kept giving him stereotypical roles, immoderate of which he'd refuse. So, 12 episodes into Season 11, helium went off-book during the unrecorded taping of the "Mr. Monopoly" sketch, making his bull quality into the "effeminate cheery guy" stereotype. Lorne Michaels "fired him beauteous overmuch arsenic helium walked disconnected the stage." Damon said, "I snapped. I conscionable did not care. I purposefully did that due to the fact that I wanted him to occurrence me."

However, helium and Lorne remained successful bully standing, and helium was invited backmost for the play finale. He said, "Lorne is simply a precise forgiving man. And I deliberation helium conscionable wanted to fto maine cognize that helium believed successful me."

21. On Instagram, Seasons 40 done 44 formed subordinate Leslie Jones wrote, "Yes, it's existent I americium leaving Saturday Night Live. I cannot convey NBC, the producers, writers, and astonishing unit capable for making SNL my 2nd location these past 5 years. Lorne Michaels, you've changed my beingness successful truthful galore ways! Thank you for being my mentor and confidant and for ever having my back. You not lone person my loyalty but you person my heart!! You person shown maine skills I ne'er imagined I had. I permission a amended performer due to the fact that of you."

She continued, "To the unthinkable formed members: I volition miss working, creating and laughing with you. I volition miss holding it down with Kenan everyday, I volition miss Cecily's content of maine making maine laughter astatine myself often, I volition miss Kate's loving hugs and talks erstwhile I needed. And of people Colin, you porcelain-skinned Ken doll. I volition miss each my formed mates!! Especially being astatine the array reads with them!! Everyone needs to cognize Leslie Jones couldn't person done immoderate of the things I did without these people. One past happening – to the fans – you are the BEST!! Thank you for each the emotion and enactment done my SNL years and I cognize you volition beryllium arsenic excited arsenic I americium erstwhile you spot immoderate of the astonishing projects and adventures that I person coming up precise soon! Love you all!! #iamnotdeadjustgraduating."

22. Season 19 formed subordinate Sarah Silverman "was hired astatine SNL and astir instantly fired." She told HuffPost Live, "It wasn't similar I did thing wrong. I was hired, and the pursuing season, they fired — it was similar a full caller benignant of — I was, I think, that past twelvemonth of the Old Guard, and they started anew."

"And by the way, I wrote not a azygous comic sketch, truthful that mightiness person thing to bash with it, too," she added.

23. Seasons 36 done 41 formed subordinate Taran Killam told Earwolf, "When Seth Meyers near the show, the dynamic changed rather a bit. He was the past idiosyncratic determination who I witnessed truly collaborate with Lorne, arsenic opposed to conscionable benignant of bash what Lorne says. And I besides deliberation the 40th [anniversary show] truly benignant of affected Lorne successful that I deliberation it was exciting, and I deliberation it was flattering, and I deliberation helium was truly capable to benignant of relish successful this unthinkable instauration that he's liable for and each these astonishing iconic careers and each of his celebrated friends, and it had to person been the astir potent overwhelming boost of a 'this is your life' acquisition ever. And past it each went away, and past it was backmost to this formed who's each 40 years younger than you, and aren't arsenic celebrated arsenic Tina Fey oregon whatever, and my acquisition was helium became precise impatient."

In his experience, aft Seth near arsenic caput writer, the amusement was "less of a blessed spot to be" and felt much similar a "competitive, exhausting environment."

24. Seasons 19 to 23 formed subordinate Norm Macdonald was fired alongside Season 2 formed member-turned-longtime writer James Downey successful 1998. In 2014, James told Vulture, "Well, that was each owed to [NBC executive] Don Ohlmeyer. Norm Macdonald, the anchor for Weekend Update, and I were penning a batch of jokes astir O.J. Simpson, and we had been doing truthful for much than 3 years. Don, being bully friends with O.J., had conscionable had enough."

James continued, "Yeah, we weren't holding back. That's the happening I benignant of liked astir Don, actually: his relationship with O.J. was truthful aged school. It was truthful un-showbizzy. He ended up firing me, arsenic good arsenic Norm, but I can't honestly accidental that a portion of maine doesn't respect Don for his loyalty. Most radical successful amusement concern would merchantability retired anyone successful their lives for immoderate crushed astatine all, including for practice. Don was the opposite. He threw a enactment for the jurors aft the 1995 acquittal. And helium stuck with O.J. done it all. I don't cognize that Norm enjoyed the acquisition of the firing rather arsenic overmuch arsenic I did, but to maine it was exciting. It was surely the champion property I ever received. We got tremendous enactment from radical I truly admire, immoderate of whom are friends and immoderate I didn't truly cognize that good but who stepped up and called me. It was a amusive time."

25. On Instagram, John Higgins, whose drama radical Please Don't Destroy was portion of SNL for Seasons 47 done 50, wrote, "I can't judge however fortunate I was to beryllium a portion of this show. It was my imagination and I got to unrecorded it. And to bash it with my 2 champion friends and my dada [SNL writer/producer Steve Higgins] was an unbelievable experience. Thank you to everyone who made my clip determination truthful special, it made this determination that overmuch harder. But for now, I'm excited to prosecute acting opportunities that I'll denote soon but contiguous I'm conscionable grateful for everything we got to do. As that abdominous lil carnivore Winnie the Pooh erstwhile said, 'How fortunate I americium to person thing that makes saying goodbye truthful hard.'"

26. Seasons 37 to 42 formed subordinate Jay Pharoah's declaration wasn't renewed successful 2016. The pursuing year, helium told Hot 97, "You spell wherever you’re appreciated. If you person aggregate radical connected the formed saying things like, ‘You’re truthful talented, and you're able, and they don't usage you. It's unfair, and it's making america consciousness atrocious due to the fact that they don't usage you, and you're a talent…' They enactment radical into boxes and immoderate they privation you to do, they expect you to do."

He said that helium was enactment into an "impression box," wherever helium was expected to chiefly bash impressions of Black celebrities. Jay besides said helium wasn't the benignant of idiosyncratic to accidental "yes" to everything, and helium wasn't acrophobic to enactment his ft down and diminution immoderate of the writers' ideas. He besides discussed the backlash helium faced down the scenes from speaking up astir the deficiency of Black women successful the cast. He alleged producers "were acceptable to get escaped of [him] successful September 2013 erstwhile [he] spoke up."

27. Seasons 16 to 18 formed subordinate Chris Rock "got fired due to the fact that [he] was leaving to spell to In Living Color."

He told WTF with Marc Maron, "The determination was, like, the culture's changing, and I'm not a portion of it. This crap is getting hip, this crap is getting Blacker, this crap is getting fucking rap-ier... Like, SNL is inactive a beauteous achromatic show, but backmost past it was... When I got hired, I was the archetypal Black feline in, like, 8 years, and Living Color was conscionable hip... I wanted to beryllium successful an situation wherever I didn't person to truly construe the drama that I wanted to do. I had these instances wherever they wanted maine to bash definite things astatine SNL. I was like, 'No, I'm not doing it.'"

When Marc asked for examples, Chris said, "Whatever enslaved sketch oregon Ubangi tribesman oregon whatever, where, not that I thought that they were racist, I conscionable thought that, if you're the lone Black look that's going to beryllium seen for an hr and a half, it conscionable doesn't...there's gotta beryllium more, oregon different Black person. It feels racist. It's not racist, it conscionable feels erstwhile that's each you see."

28. On Live with Kelly and Ryan, Seasons 37 to 47 formed subordinate Kate McKinnon said, "I thought astir it for a precise agelong time, and it was very, precise hard. All I ever wanted to bash successful my full beingness was beryllium connected Saturday Night Live. So I did, I loved it, I had the champion decade, and past I was conscionable similar — my assemblage was tired, and I felt similar it was time."

29. Season 34 formed subordinate Michaela Watkins was fto spell successful 2009. She told Entertainment Weekly, "The lone mentation I got from [Lorne] — and he's not known to accidental things conscionable to marque radical consciousness amended — was that helium felt heavy down that I should person my ain show. And I agreed. SNL was a imagination travel existent for me. It was a fantastic year. I don't person immoderate regrets."

She continued, "What helium said is he's trying to get what's champion for him and champion for me. He said it had thing to bash with talent. And I'm conscionable going to spell connected that. That was his lone explanation. He's looking astatine the full premix of the show, and possibly helium feels that what I bring would beryllium amended served connected a sitcom. They hired 2 caller gals [Jenny Slate and Nasim Pedrad] that I deliberation are going to beryllium exquisite."

30. And finally, Chris Parnell was fired from SNL doubly — archetypal successful 2001 for chartless reasons, past successful 2006 due to the fact that of fund cuts. After his archetypal firing, helium was rapidly brought back.

In a Reddit AMA, helium said, "You know, arsenic I recognize it, some Will [Ferrell] and [Chris] Kattan went to bat for maine to Lorne. And I deliberation it surely helped. And I cognize 1 of the writers T. Sean Shannon, helium wrote a scathing sketch that was work (at the table, I recognize it) that condemned my firing, and took everyone to task astir it. Yeah, I ne'er knew precisely wherefore I was fired? I heard from idiosyncratic it mightiness person been an NBC enforcement who didn't attraction for my stuff? But I deliberation Will and Chris went to bat for me, which decidedly helped. It was crazy. It was a precise hard time. But I was precise gladsome to spell backmost to the show."

If you got to prime 1 erstwhile Saturday Night Live formed subordinate to enactment connected the amusement forever, who would you choose? Let america cognize successful the comments!

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"People Were Doing Crazy Drugs At The Time": 30 Surprising Reasons "SNL" Cast Members Quit Or Got Fired

Saturday Night Live has featured immoderate beauteous iconic performers implicit the years. Of course, they don't enactment everlastingly (except for Kenan Thompson). Some actors enactment mum connected wherefore they discontinue oregon got fired, but galore person been amazingly candid!

Here are 30 erstwhile SNL formed members who revealed wherefore they near the show:

5. During the 2019 Evening with Stephen Colbert event, Season 8 done 10 formed subordinate Julia Louis-Dreyfus described her clip connected SNL arsenic "a beauteous brutal clip but a precise informative time."

10. Seasons 26 done 31 formed subordinate Tina Fey near the amusement to absorption connected her ain series, 30 Rock.

She told The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, "I'm retired of the fake quality concern now. The caller show's going to instrumentality a batch of time... This is the large leap I'm making, it's a amusement astir moving astatine a late-night drama show. I'm precise creative."

"[The past episode] was precise emotional. I conscionable wanted to get done it without breaking down successful each sketch. Because thing says drama similar breaking down," she said.

16. As an already established name, Robert Downey Jr. was hired for SNL Season 11 to gully successful caller viewers. However, aft ratings dropped to the lowest they'd ever been, Lorne Michaels fired Robert alongside astir of the cast.

19. Seasons 28 to 34 formed subordinate Amy Poehler discontinue SNL to focus connected her ain show, Parks and Recreation, which was primitively planned arsenic a spinoff of The Office.

She told the LA Times, "It's gonna beryllium truly hard — Boyz II Men hard — to accidental goodbye to yesterday. SNL was dangerous, late-night, last-minute, and star-studded, but similar immoderate bully drug, you request to cognize erstwhile to enactment it down."

However, helium and Lorne remained successful bully standing, and helium was invited backmost for the play finale. He said, "Lorne is simply a precise forgiving man. And I deliberation helium conscionable wanted to fto maine cognize that helium believed successful me."

"And by the way, I wrote not a azygous comic sketch, truthful that mightiness person thing to bash with it, too," she added.

In his experience, aft Seth near arsenic caput writer, the amusement was "less of a blessed spot to be" and felt much similar a "competitive, exhausting environment."

27. Seasons 16 to 18 formed subordinate Chris Rock "got fired due to the fact that [he] was leaving to spell to In Living Color."

30. And finally, Chris Parnell was fired from SNL doubly — archetypal successful 2001 for chartless reasons, past successful 2006 due to the fact that of fund cuts. After his archetypal firing, helium was rapidly brought back.

If you got to prime 1 erstwhile Saturday Night Live formed subordinate to enactment connected the amusement forever, who would you choose? Let america cognize successful the comments!

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