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Every year around this time – Saturday Night Live’s finale is May 21 – the rumor mill starts as to how the venerable comedy variety series will look next year.
In a longform interview with Michael Che in the New York Times, Lorne Michaels hinted that this off season might be busier than recent years.
The creator and exec producer said that a “year of change” was possible. However, he hoped that Che, who this season became the person with the second most appearances behind the Weekend Update desk, overtaking Seth Meyers, would be a part of that change.
“If I had my way, he’ll be here,” Michaels told the NY Times. “And I don’t always get my way. But when you have someone who’s the real thing, you want to hold on as long as you can.”
Head writer Che himself, who joined SNL in 2013 and became a featured player in 2014, discussed his future with the paper.
“My head has been at leaving for the past five seasons,” he said. “I do think that I’ve been here longer than I’ll be here. This show is built for younger voices and, at some point, there’ll be something more exciting to watch at the halfway mark of the show than me and dumb Jost.”
But Che dismissed every report that he is leaving, such as the one where he told a comedy crowd that this year would be his last year.
“Who doesn’t say they’re going to quit their job when they’re at their other job?” he said. “I’m sure Biden says that twice a week.
Head writer Che, who is the first African-American Weekend Update host, has been busy outside of SNL over the last year with HBO Max series That Damn Michael Che, which is coming back for a second season, and Netflix comedy special Michael Che: Shame the Devil.
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who died Thursday of unknown causes at 67, told The Digital Fix in September.Since he was afraid to be type-cast as a mafioso following the overwhelming success of Martin Scorsese’s mobster movie “Goodfellas” in which he plays Henry Hill, he refused to play similar characters back-to-back.He even turned down the role of Ralphie, eventually played by Joe Pantoliano, in “The Sopranos.”“I didn’t want to do another mafia thing, and I was shooting ‘Hannibal.’ It just didn’t feel right at the time,” he said in an interview with the Guardian last year.Yet, a role in “The Sopranos” universe wasn’t off the table. In “The Many Saints of Newark,” the HBO prequel which aired in October, Liotta played Aldo “Hollywood Dick” Moltisanti, the grandfather of Michael Imperioli’s Christopher.
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told Variety on Friday.Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney are also rumored to be departing, according to reports. Longtime cast members Kenan Thompson and Cecily Strong are additionally reportedly questionable to return. A representative for Davidson was not available when contacted by phone and did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment from The Post.
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newly crowned Oscar-winner talked about a recent run-in with “SNL” ringleader Lorne Michaels on Entertainment Weekly’s “The Awardist” podcast.Jackson, 73, famously dropped an F-bomb during a “What’s up With That?” sketch on the live comedy show in December 2012.He’s jokingly blamed cast member Kenan Thompson, 44, for the mishap on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in March, saying Thompson was supposed to cut him off before he uttered the expletive. While in New York promoting “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey,” Jackson said he happened to get into an elevator as Michaels, 77, was getting off.
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