{"id":1988078,"date":"2025-08-30T07:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1988078"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:10:34","slug":"michael-longfellow-exits-after-3-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/michael-longfellow-exits-after-3-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Longfellow Exits After 3 Seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Michael Longfellow has left the hit NBC sketch comedy series after three seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Longfellow, who joined for the show\u2019s 48th season in 2022, was bumped up to a main cast member before Season 50 premiered. Longfellow\u2019s departure comes just as he was being prepped to takeover the \u201cSNL\u201d hit segment \u201cWeekend Update.\u201d He now joins Devon Walker and Emil Wakim as departing cast members ahead of Season 51.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from TheWrap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/join-pro\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=site&amp;utm_campaign=articlePROpromo&amp;utm_id=070825\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"247\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/C8zH.0YH3.WF7yVlrIECaQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTI0NztjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/thewrap.com\/9c7d0b3beed6f4c9b7c5e1d24c6e24d4\"\/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So far there are no confirmations about whether longstanding \u201cWeekend Update\u201d hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che will be returning to the news desk for Season 51.<\/p>\n<div class=\"max-md:faux-bleed mb-4 bg-marshmallow pb-5 dark:bg-ramones md:invisible md:mb-0 md:h-0 md:overflow-hidden md:pb-0\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_2ndijb8lb2mav5ubsddbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-4 hidden pb-5 md:block\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex w-full flex-nowrap justify-center\">\n<div class=\"flex ad-container\" id=\"_R_4ndijb8lb2mav5ubsddbH1_\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this week, the LateNighter reported that the sketch series began screen-testing at least one new anchor duo. The platform reports that Longfellow tested alongside writer KC Shornima last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aside from his \u201cSNL\u201d work, Longfellow starred alongside his former coworker Kenan Thompson in \u201cGood Burger 2\u201d and has been on a stand-up tour. He took the stage for Netflix\u2019s comedy festival Netflix is a Joke back in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/snl-michael-longfellow-exits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019: Michael Longfellow Exits After 3 Seasons;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019: Michael Longfellow Exits After 3 Seasons<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d star Michael Longfellow has left the hit NBC sketch comedy series after three seasons. Longfellow, who joined for the show\u2019s 48th season in 2022, was bumped up to a main cast member before Season 50 premiered. Longfellow\u2019s departure comes just as he was being prepped to takeover the \u201cSNL\u201d hit segment \u201cWeekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1956684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[352942,352941,352944,21890,349247,356573],"class_list":["post-1988078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-devon-walker","tag-michael-che","tag-michael-longfellow","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-sketch-comedy-series","tag-weekend-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Ryan-Reynolds-Dwayne-Johnson-Tessa-Thompson-and-More-Set-Panels.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1956684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}