{"id":29125,"date":"2025-08-28T17:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29125\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T17:32:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T17:32:38","slug":"snls-michael-longfellow-leaving-after-three-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29125\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019s Michael Longfellow Leaving After Three Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE<\/strong>: The <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> exit carousel continues with <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/michael-longfellow\/\" id=\"auto-tag_michael-longfellow\" data-tag=\"michael-longfellow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Longfellow<\/a> becoming the latest cast member to leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLongfellow <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2022\/09\/snl-new-cast-marcello-hernandez-molly-kearney-michael-longfellow-devon-walker-1235120023\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined the show as a featured player in Season 48<\/a> and was promoted to the main cast ahead of Season 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHe joins<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/devon-walker-exiting-snl-1236497237\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Devon Walker,<\/a> who joined at the same time, and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/emil-wakim-snl-exit-1236498808\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emil Wakim<\/a>, who are also both leaving ahead of Season 51. More are expected to depart before the season starts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLongfellow\u2019s departure is somewhat of a surprise given that he was seemingly being primed to take over the Weekend Update desk at some point after some successful stints behind the desk, joking about topics such as <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/01\/michael-longfellow-tiktok-weekend-update-1236260750\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dsRaQ6a2s9U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real ID<\/a>. He even appeared on Weekend Update on his first ever show (see below).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn May, he joked that he wasn\u2019t on the show much in Season 50. \u00a0\u201cI work like 12 hours a week. When you love your job, it never feels like work. No, I\u2019m just not in that much stuff this season. It\u2019s fine, I walk around, they don\u2019t really keep tabs on your whereabouts here,\u201d he joked on Weekend Update alongside Colin Jost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHis departure comes as creator Lorne Michaels shakes up the cast ahead of Season 51. Writers Celeste Yim and Rosebud Baker have also departed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOutside of <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/snl\/\" id=\"auto-tag_snl\" data-tag=\"snl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a>, Longfellow starred in Good Burger 2, and he is a touring stand-up, having appeared on the Netflix is a Joke festival, as well as on NBC comedy reality series Bring The Funny, which was hosted by his future colleague Kenan Thompson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSaturday Night Live, which is produced by Broadway Video in association with SNL Studios, returns on October 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: The Saturday Night Live exit carousel continues with Michael Longfellow becoming the latest cast member to leave.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,19,17,23263,3605,15460,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-29125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-michael-longfellow","13":"tag-saturday-night-live","14":"tag-snl","15":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}