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Former “Saturday Night Live<\/a>” cast member Devon Walker told Variety on Tuesday why he felt the show was “toxic” after posting a controversial Instagram message about leaving the series last week.<\/p>\n

Walker was the first of several cast members to announce their departure from the NBC sketch comedy ahead of its 51st season. He wrote in his farewell message that while the show was “really cool,” it was also toxic and marked by “dysfunction.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“Me and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell. But\u2026we made the most of what it was, even amidst all of the dysfunction. We made a f—ed up lil family,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

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Devon Walker (right) announced he will be leaving “Saturday Night Live” after three seasons. (Will Heath\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Variety reporter Ethan Shanfeld asked<\/a> Walker what specifically about the show was toxic after the Instagram message gained traction. Walker said he is still “trying to find the right avenue to go into detail” but criticized the show\u2019s handling of how cast members are let go.<\/p>\n

“There is a measure of humanity that the show could benefit from,” Walker said. “What ends up happening over the summer is oftentimes people are left hanging with big life decisions \u2014 people trying to start families or buy homes \u2014 and there\u2019s no word from the show about whether they have their job. The show won\u2019t tell them all summer and then will ultimately end up firing them when there\u2019s been months of them trying to work their situation out.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Several cast members, along with Devon Walker (right), announced they would be leaving last week. (NBC\/Kevin Mazur\/NBC via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

He clarified, “That wasn\u2019t my situation, but I\u2019ve known of situations where that\u2019s happened. If there\u2019s one thing I hope for the future of the show, it\u2019s that a sprinkle of humanity could be added into it. I understand it\u2019s show business, and it\u2019s cutthroat, but people have lives, and people deserve to know the status of their job at a reasonable juncture. Most people are told they\u2019re coming back to work in a week.”<\/p>\n

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Walker added that his leaving the show was a “mutual decision” between him and producers, not a matter of being fired or quitting. Still, he argued for more transparency on behalf of cast members who rely heavily on their jobs.<\/p>\n

“But again, on the measure of transparency and clarity around people\u2019s employment\u2026 We\u2019re human beings. We\u2019ve got food to put on the table. Some of us support other people in our lives, and we\u2019re not making millions of dollars on the show. It\u2019s not like we\u2019re good indefinitely once we leave,” Walker said.<\/p>\n

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Devon Walker stood by his comments that “Saturday Night Live” could be “toxic” sometimes. (Gilbert Carrasquillo\/GC Images via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to representatives for “Saturday Night Live” for comment.<\/p>\n

Walker joined the show in 2022 as a featured player before being promoted to the main cast in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lindsay Kornick is an associate editor for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gen Z And SNL’s Shift To The Right | Will Cain Show Will Cain is joined by comedian…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":202458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[74301,171,68246,1747,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-202457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-culture-trends","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox-news-media","11":"tag-saturday-night-live","12":"tag-tv","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115152036361828719","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202457","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=202457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}