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It appears to be the end of an era: Bowen Yang is planning to leave Saturday Night Live, most likely after this Saturday’s episode hosted by his Wicked costar Ariana Grande with musical guest Cher. A source with knowledge informed VF that this episode may be Yang’s last—though Deadline asserts it as fact. Representatives for Yang and the show did not respond to requests for comment.
Yang joined Saturday Night Live as a writer in 2018, appearing infrequently onscreen. He was promoted to featured player the following season, then full repertory player in 2021—becoming one of the show’s marquee faces, and earning four primetime Emmy nominations for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series.
In an April interview, Yang indicated that he’d started to think about moving on. The star-studded events around SNL‘s 50th anniversary helped him realize “what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is,” he said then. The lauded sketch comedy show is “this growing, living thing where new people come in and you do have to sort of make way for them and to grow and to keep elevating themselves. And that inevitably requires me to sort of hang it up at some point.”
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