‘Saturday Night Live’ Wraps Season 50 With No Cast Goodbyes In Finale As NBC Series Prepares For Departures

There had been jokes about solid member Sarah Sherman leaving and Weekend Update‘s Colin Jost changing Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels, there have been lengthy hugs throughout the curtain name however no actual indications of the adjustments to return throughout the Season 50 finale of the venerable NBC caricature comedy sequence.

And adjustments are more likely to come with a 17-member solid that includes six veterans who’ve been at the display for seven or extra seasons, Colin Jost, Michael Che, Mikey Day, Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim in addition to Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured SNL solid member in historical past.

Saturday Night Live stopped giving longtime solid participants sendoffs within the season finale just like the star-studded good-bye Kristen Wiig gained in May 2012 after seven years at the display. There had been vegetation throughout this night’s curtain name however they had been from Jost to the finale’s host, his spouse Scarlett Johansson. (You can watch it beneath.)

Of the present long-timers, handiest Che has mentioned publicly that they might be leaving after this season, nevertheless it used to be throughout a standup efficiency, and he has additionally mentioned that previously. He didn’t give any hints of a pending go out in this night’s nearer.

Several different veteran SNL solid participants have alluded in interviews and social media posts that they could go away however there have been no indicators of that within the finale, like the best way Kate McKinnon were given choked up in her ultimate episode.

It used to be in large part trade as standard. And, strangely, it used to be probably the most busiest present solid participants from the more moderen SNL additions, Sarah Sherman, who used to be referred to as out via Johansson in her opening monologue.

“It’s been a great season / and Sarah is leaving / we’re all gonna miss you next year,” Johansson sang, to which surprised Sherman spoke back, “Wait, what? Did you guys hear something? What do you mean leaving?”

It used to be a comic story; Sherman most likely used to be picked as a result of she isn’t a departure suspect. During the curtain name on the finish of the episode, Sherman used to be considered one of two solid participants Bowen Yang used to be noticed giving long embraces to, along side Nwodim. While he has been an SNL solid member for 6 seasons, Yang has been at the display for seven, having began as a author. And he has noticed his function profession explode, opening new alternatives for considered one of SNL‘s MVPs.

The finale additionally addressed extensive unfold hypothesis that Jost is one of the best contenders to be triumphant Michaels on the helm of SNL when he retires. Michaels had prompt that would depart after the display’s milestone 50th anniversary however therefore walked that again, pronouncing that there used to be “no immediate plan” for him to step down.

In the newest version of Weekend Update‘s notorious — and vastly fashionable — semi-annual Joke Swap between Che and Jost, the latter needed to open with this line he used to be made to learn:

“It’s SNL‘s 50th season, so I want to take a moment to say something to our boss, Lorne Michaels. Lorne, retire b*tch! Let me run the show.”

Jost revisited the topic on the finish of the phase when he used to be precipitated to position on purple lipstick prior to pronouncing every other line written for him via Che, “Lorne, I’ll do anything to run this show.”

Later, throughout the curtain name, Jost’s spouse, Johansson, gave Michaels a shoutout, congratulating him on SNL‘s 50-year run. “You are a singular man, we love you and thank you,” she mentioned.

It is unclear when we can get information on departing SNL solid participants. Traditionally, veterans who make a decision to depart make the announcement within the weeks following the season finale. After taking some break day, Michaels will get again to it via July, with choices who would no longer be requested again typically made in August-early September.