Snl cast changes8/31/2023 ![]() Strong and Davidson, meanwhile, ultimately decided to return - though rumors asserted that Strong didn’t make that call until about a week before Season 47 began last fall. After the show, it was announced that utility player Beck Bennett would not be returning his sketch where he impersonated Vin Diesel extolling the virtues of “the mooovies” turned out to be his swan song. Last season, as the cast had grown to seemingly untenable levels, there was suspense as the Season 46 finale approached: Would anyone announce their departure, or even imply it? Several of that night’s performances could have been read that way: During Weekend Update alone, Cecily Strong sang “My Way” in a giant box of wine as Jeanine Pirro while Pete Davidson delivered a mini-stand-up routine that ended with his sincere thanks. It wasn’t a definitive “final” sketch - indeed, Meadows and Macdonald would survive into the next incarnation of the cast - but it’s hard not to read it as one in retrospect.Įven when the departures are more mutual and amicable, some of that uncertainty still remains. From this uncertainty, an even grimmer version of the tacit goodbye could manifest: Look at a sketch where Chris Farley, Adam Sandler, Tim Meadows, Norm Macdonald and Jay Mohr play themselves, systematically jumping to their gory deaths in a polar bear cave. ![]() It was a ruthlessly unsentimental practice, compounded by some cast members not knowing for sure when they would be leaving - or fired. Even in the more stable early-to-mid-‘90s era, some of the most popular performers on the show disappeared without much ceremony Dana Carvey and Mike Myers both had separate mid-season departures, while Phil Hartman had a few lines at the end of a season-wrapping musical number, announcing that this was his last sketch. Much of the beloved original cast left in a couple of waves in 19, and many of the ’80s seasons were tumultuous in just about every way. This was also the first extended acknowledgment of a departing cast member’s legacy. There was a capper with Tracy Morgan ranting about what a bad dude Ferrell really is, but before that, it was utterly and unusually sincere. But Ferrell appearing in most or all of the sketches had happened before the major break from tradition in this episode was its final segment, where Ferrell’s castmates paid tribute to his work on the show. Ferrell was all over his final episode, reviving beloved recurring characters left and right, appearing in nearly every sketch. In May 2002, Will Ferrell left the show following a seven-season run (which at that time was far closer to the upper end of anyone’s SNL tenure the record-holder in 2002 was Tim Meadows, who ended his 10-season run a few years before Ferrell left). This four-way goodbye arrived close to the 20th anniversary of SNL’s first modern send-off. This left a good but overcrowded season with an appropriately overcrowded final episode, laboring for ways to send four well-liked and successful cast members on their way. Shortly before the season’s final episode last weekend aired, news broke that Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney, all veterans of eight seasons or more, would not be sticking around for Season 48 next fall. ![]() After a season where the number of semi-regular on-camera performers swelled to an astonishing 24 people, Saturday Night Live went through an overdue house-cleaning with its recent season finale.
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