Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Kenan Thompson was doing a studio voiceover gig when his cell phone started lighting up.The first call came from his agent. The second one: the boss, Lorne Michaels, creator of "Saturday Night Live." Pay no attention, they told him, to published reports that had him being fired from the cast.It would have been a major shock, Thompson said "I left Lorne’s office three days earlier, and he said I was coming back," said Thompson, a Lake Las Vegas resident since 2004.Ten of the 17 cast members are leaving, including four whose firings could be announced this week. Two mainstays, Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch, are leaving to work on "30 Rock," a parody of ‘SNL.’Thompson said Darrell Hammond, impersonator extraordinaire, has been told "he can come back if he wants."

Norm Clarke

I wonder who is gone? But since I do not watch the show I would not know their names anyways!

WHAT’s going on be hind the scenes at "Saturday Night Live" this month may be more dramatic than any thing you’ll see on the two prime-time shows starting this fall based on the famed late-night comedy.Four cast members are about to be fired – they know who they are, but the public doesn’t.Two others – including the undisputed star of "SNL," Tina Fey – are gone.Auditions are about to begin for the signature spot on the show, anchor of the snarky "Weekend Update."Lorne Michaels, the show’s boss and guiding personality for nearly 30 years – and the producer of "30 Rock" – has less than six weeks to get it all done. Crunch time."The history of ‘SNL’ has been that people step up," Michaels told the Post yesterday. "It’s just been that way, at least so far. I think there are people there now who are going to be brilliant." This will be one of the few seasons that he doesn’t bring in at least one new cast member. Knowing that budget cuts were looming for this fall, Michaels last year hired an exceptionally large cast – so that when the ax fell, he would already have a fresh, experienced cast ready to go.

NY Post

When was the last time this show was funny? I think when they added Joe Piscopo the show went downhill.

Tina Fey made the big announcement on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno tonight. She said that she will no longer be the head writer of SNL and will leave Weekend Update in order to focus completely on her new comedy series, 30 Rock. Fey has been the head writer of SNL for six years and has been a writer for the show since 1997.

TV Squad 

She is the only I like on Saturday Night Live 

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