‘SNL’ Star Hints at ‘a Lot of Change’ When the Present Returns

“Saturday Evening Reside” wrapped its milestone fiftieth season final week, with a scheduled return to screens within the fall.

However whereas audiences could also be wanting to see their forged favorites as soon as once more spoof the most recent happenings in Washington, it seems that there may very well be a little bit of a shake-up coming.

Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured forged member within the NBC present’s historical past, has hinted that some massive adjustments may happen between now and subsequent season.

Chatting with Web page Six on Wednesday, Thompson described the present’s latest season finale as “bittersweet.”

“Particularly this 12 months the place it looks like there’s perhaps, probably, quite a lot of change subsequent 12 months,” he mentioned.

Thompson didn’t develop on what these adjustments could also be, however there was hypothesis that a number of standard forged members could also be about to go away the present.

“You need everybody to remain endlessly, realizing that folks could also be making choices this summer time,” he added.

Colin Jost, whose spouse Scarlett Johansson hosted the season 50 finale episode, cracked a number of jokes about changing “Saturday Evening Reside” boss Lorne Michaels throughout his newest Weekend Replace. Jost started his tenure on the present as a part of the writing staff in 2005 and have become co-anchor of the “Weekend Replace” phase in 2014.

It was speculated that Michaels could be departing within the run-up to the present’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations. The 80-year-old, nevertheless, who created the sketch comedy present in 1975 has beforehand addressed the rumors, telling The Hollywood Reporter in 2024 that he had no “speedy” plans to retire.

“I simply know that that is type of what I do and so long as I can maintain doing it, I am going to maintain doing it,” he mentioned.

Elsewhere within the finale, Sarah Sherman, who joined the forged in 2021, was proven wanting confused after different forged members sang a line about her leaving in a tune carried out throughout Johansson’s monologue.

Bowen Yang additionally has left followers anxious he may very well be saying his farewells following a latest interview with Leisure Weekly.

“I believe you get to some extent at SNL the place you perceive that you simply’re on the downswing of issues. I believe I used to be simply processing that being one of many final ‘final nights’ that I’d have, and that may be a enormous factor,” he mentioned earlier this week.

As for Thompson, who joined the forged in 2003, he mentioned he has but to signal a brand new contract for the approaching season however expressed curiosity in returning.

“You simply by no means know what the long run holds,” he informed Web page Six. “I do not need to be in the best way of another person.”

“I do not need to be the stale outdated man driving the identical outdated factor. That does not actually occur that a lot at ‘SNL’ however there is not any ensures,” he added.

Representatives for “SNL” didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.