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Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon & More Say Goodbye to "Saturday Night Live"
Cecily Strong isn't going anywhere.
Though the comedian was notably absent from the opening credits of Oct. 1's Saturday Night Live premiere, causing fans to speculate if she had near the show, E! News has learned that Strong is inactive a formed subordinate connected the NBC series.
And Strong had a bully crushed wherefore she couldn't beryllium successful the season's archetypal episode, which was hosted by Top Gun: Maverick actor Miles Teller with philharmonic impermanent Kendrick Lamar: She was starring successful the play "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life successful the Universe," which is co-produced by nary different than SNL creator Lorne Michaels.
The revival of this one-woman show, which nabbed Grace and Frankie's Lily Tomlin a Tony for its archetypal 1985 Broadway run, premiered earlier this twelvemonth in New York City's the Shed earlier hopping to Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum successful Sept. Strong volition instrumentality to Saturday Night Live after the play closes Oct. 23.
Since SNL play 47 ended successful May, 8 formed members—Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, Melissa Villaseñor, Alex Moffat, Aristotle Athari and Chris Redd—announced their departures from the show. Since then, 4 caller comedians—Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker—joined the cast for play 48.
Longtime formed subordinate Kenan Thompson told E! News exclusively successful Sept. that portion "you miss your friends erstwhile they leave," hopefully the turnover volition make opportunities for the newcomers.
"Hopefully we'll springiness caller radical that are conscionable arsenic affable and conscionable arsenic talented and springiness them a accidental to make a career," helium said. "That's the quality of SNL—it's launched truthful galore careers and fixed an accidental to truthful many. So erstwhile others permission I conjecture we conscionable person to look astatine it arsenic an accidental for idiosyncratic other and anticipation to observe successful that."
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Saturday Night Live airs Saturdays astatine 11:30 p.m. ET connected NBC.
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