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22.06.2022 - 03:43 / usmagazine.com
A bittersweet ending. After Aidy Bryant decided it was time to move on from her post at Saturday Night Live, she faced the biggest hurdle of all — informing her boss, Lorne Michaels.
“Maybe in March or April, I went to his office and was like, ‘I gotta talk to you,'” the 35-year-old told Variety on Tuesday, June 21. “I was scared because I feel close to him and so grateful to him. I didn’t want it to come off like I was leaving angrily. I am leaving with so much love. He was like, ‘I understand, and it makes sense for you.'”
The Horace and Pete actress joined the cast in 2012 for season 38 and decided season 47 would be her last. Although her final stint on the show “wasn’t the normal year that I hoped for” due to COVID, she still didn’t regret her decision, saying, “10 [years] felt like a nice, solid round number.”
The Arizona native continued: “When COVID hit, it was so jarring that we were all like, ‘I’m definitely going to come back next year.’ And then I had to shoot [Hulu’s] Shrill for half of last season, and so I missed a lot.”
The comedian announced her exit from the long-running sketch show in May along with fellow cast members Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney. Bryant garnered three Emmy nominations for her work on the NBC hit series, ultimately landing her roles in popular shows like HBO’s Girls and Netflix’s Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Her final appearance on the comedy series came that same month in a Weekend Update segment on the May 21 episode of the season 47 finale. In her final sketch, Bryant joked with Bowen Yang and Michael Che as she and Yang, 31, played their “trend forecasters” with style ideas for the summer. Although the mood was obviously light-hearted, Bryant confessed she was concerned
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ended her run a decade later after Season 47.The “Shrill” star told Variety in a new profile that she wanted to leave the NBC show sooner, however, the coronavirus ruined her plans. “If it weren’t for COVID, I probably would have left a few years earlier,” she said. “But it was such a huge change.”“When COVID hit, it was so jarring that we were all like, ‘I’m definitely going to come back next year.’ And then I had to shoot ‘Shrill’ for half of last season, and so I missed a lot,” she continued.Bryant noted that she felt that 10 years seemed to be enough time on “SNL.” “And then it was like, ‘Well, now I should go back one more.’ I kept trying to seek one last normal year.
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Aidy Bryant is looking back on her reasons for leaving “Saturday Night Live” after a decade on the show.
Aidy Bryant is sharing the reason behind her exit. Bryant told that the COVID-19 pandemic played a major role in her staying on the show longer than she originally planned.«If it weren’t for COVID, I probably would have left a few years earlier.
Aidy Bryant just gave an interview where she revealed the reason why she’s leaving Saturday Night Live.
Aidy Bryant spent a decade of her life as one of the more recognizable players on “Saturday Night Live.” But on a recent afternoon, as she’s being photographed in Bryant Park (get it?), she manages to stump a stranger. This curious woman cranes her neck at Bryant, who is minding her own business, posing near the New York Public Library in a flowy black dress and silver pumps.“What are you in?” the woman asks, spotting a familiar face.Bryant, 35, is too polite to brush her away.
Kenan Thompson isn't departing anytime soon. ET spoke to Thompson at the 2022 Apollo Spring Benefit in New York City, where he's hosting the annual fundraiser, about his future on the sketch comedy show after a season that saw major cast exits in Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney. «I mean, not that I know of,» Thompson said when asked if he was planning to depart SNL.
WALB. She also objected to the camp’s framing of her gender identity as a “life choice.”“If it was a choice, I wouldn’t choose to be a part of the LGBTQ community or be trans because I wouldn’t want to put myself through the struggles that other people don’t have to go through,” Clark said.Connie Bivens, the counselor at Connect Camps who sent the message, noted that the organization is a faith-based camp that travels around the world and holds week-long camp sessions for elementary school children ranging from kindergarten to eighth grade. But she denied that Clark’s gender identity had any influence on the decision.Rather, Bivens said, she had overheard other girls at the camp talking about Clark in a negative way, prompting the counselors to hold a meeting to discuss the situation.
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