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Morgan Wallen Abruptly Walks Off SNL Stage During End Credits
Saturday Night Live writer Josh Patten is clearing up the lies, lies, lies.
Patten caused a disturbance March 30 by posting a photograph of a Krispy Kreme motortruck to his Instagram Stories that helium captioned "get maine to God's Country," a wide notation to Morgan Wallen's viral station to his ain Instagram Stories with the aforesaid caption implicit a backstage jet.
ICYMI, the "Last Night" hitmaker shared the photograph close after abruptly leaving the SNL stage early following his quality arsenic the March 29 episode's philharmonic guest.
While galore assumed Patten's station was mocking the state star's actions aft appearing connected the show, the Weekend Update writer aboriginal clarified that it conscionable wasn't that deep.
In follow-up posts to his Instagram Stories, Patten screenshotted a punctuation from state euphony outlet Whiskey Riff's coverage of his societal media enactment that posited, "Guessing Patten's not a Morgan Wallen fan?" with an eye-roll emoji. On the adjacent slide, helium posted a screenshot of his most-played songs of 2023, which included nary little than 5 songs by Wallen. He captioned the post, "How rapidly the media forgets 2023."
But Patten didn't halt there. The writer—who is 1 of SNL's longest-tenured writers, having written for the sketch drama bid since 2012—then shared a photograph of the Krispy Kreme store successful Times Square connected which helium cheekily wrote, "Bravely lasting up to Whiskey Riff dot com truthful that my children and grandchildren won't person to." (He besides enactment Wallen's opus with Post Malone, "I Had Some Help," implicit the Instagram Story.)
Patten continued to gag astir the misunderstanding successful his consequent Instagram Stories, penning "WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION..." successful large substance earlier sharing a video of himself shooting a three-pointer connected a hoops tribunal acceptable to Wallen's song, "I Wrote The Book."
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The speculation that Wallen's antithetic exit apt besides considered his past with Saturday Night Live, which he was uninvited to execute on successful October 2020 aft being seen partying astatine the University of Alabama days earlier helium was scheduled to marque his SNL debut amid the COVID pandemic. He would spell connected to marque his debut 2 months later.
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The speculation that Wallen's antithetic exit apt besides considered his past with Saturday Night Live, which he was uninvited to execute on successful October 2020 aft being seen partying astatine the University of Alabama days earlier helium was scheduled to marque his SNL debut amid the COVID pandemic. He would spell connected to marque his debut 2 months later.
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