{"id":183440,"date":"2025-08-29T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183440\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T00:30:10","slug":"heidi-gardner-and-michael-longfellow-are-also-leaving-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/183440\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Gardner and Michael Longfellow are also leaving \u2018SNL\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More cast changes are coming to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/16\/entertainment\/snl-50th-anniversary-special?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Saturday Night Live;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Saturday Night Live<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, CNN confirmed that Heidi Gardner and Michael Longfellow are leaving the sketch show, becoming the third and fourth cast members to depart this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gardner\u2019s departure comes after eight seasons with the show, which saw her create famously neurotic addled characters and fan favorites including Angel, every boxer\u2019s girlfriend from every boxing movie ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Longfellow was on \u201cSNL\u201d for three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CNN has reached out to representatives for Gardner and Longfellow, as well as for \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The news comes after a different pair of cast members announced their departures from the show earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday, Devon Walker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/08\/26\/entertainment\/devon-walker-exits-snl?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:shared he was leaving the show;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">shared he was leaving the show<\/a> via an Instagram post, writing in part that the working environment there was at times \u201ctoxic as hell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Walker, who was with the show three seasons, likened his time on the show to a \u201clittle marriage,\u201d saying, \u201cMe and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two days later, Emil Wakim also took to Instagram to inform followers he was leaving the show, writing that \u201cit was a gut punch of a call to get but I\u2019m so grateful for my time there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Wakim was on the show for one season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Almost every year, a slew of cast additions and exits are announced prior to the new season of \u201cSNL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Last week, \u201cSNL\u201d creator and overseer Lorne Michaels <a href=\"https:\/\/puck.news\/lorne-michaels-on-colbert-trump-the-future-of-snl\/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=22610688201&amp;campaign_type=&amp;campaign_id=22610688201&amp;placement=x&amp;utm_content=&amp;adset_id=&amp;utm_term=&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=22620632539&amp;gbraid=0AAAAABTpuUWWG6RY_Pg-dlhB24yQa6huI&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjw_L_FBhDmARIsAItqgt5gmlD5f2Dfbge_WEpcuxu0FUl9RxRmbkZu0Z3jUMepdLT3syt65aQaAi4aEALw_wcB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:told Puck;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">told Puck<\/a> that some major changes were coming to the cast. Announcements revealing who he\u2019s selected to join the cast as new members are expected soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSNL\u201d Season 51 will premiere on October 4, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/nbc-insider\/saturday-night-live-season-51-premiere-date-cast-hosts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to NBC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CNN\u2019s Lisa Respers France contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/register?source=external-feeds_iluminar&amp;cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo&amp;registration_email_campaign=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNN.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More cast changes are coming to \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d On Thursday, CNN confirmed that Heidi Gardner and Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":183441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[99817,171,103064,102872,1933,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-183440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-devon-walker","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-heidi-gardner","11":"tag-michael-longfellow","12":"tag-snl","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115109234382281129","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}