{"id":2015014,"date":"2025-09-11T20:20:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2015014"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:20:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:20:29","slug":"snl-alum-laraine-newman-reacts-to-cast-shake-up-says-her-era-was-when-lorne-didnt-fire-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/snl-alum-laraine-newman-reacts-to-cast-shake-up-says-her-era-was-when-lorne-didnt-fire-people\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018SNL\u2019 Alum Laraine Newman Reacts to Cast Shake-Up, Says Her Era Was \u201cWhen Lorne Didn\u2019t Fire People\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nearly 50 years after she made her debut as an original castmember on Saturday Night Live<\/a>, Laraine Newman<\/a> continues to be an avid fan of the NBC<\/a> sketch comedy series and closely follows its changes.<\/p>\n

Newman<\/a>, who became known for such SNL<\/a> characters as Connie Conehead and Valley girl Sherry, tells The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> that she appreciates the propensity for the Lorne Michaels<\/a>-created program to evolve over the decades. The show has been the subject of recent headlines surrounding its cast comings and goings ahead of season 51, which debuts Oct. 4.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s thrilling about SNL<\/a>, and the reason I think it\u2019s had its longevity, is that it has absolutely evolved with the time, with the generation, with the style and tone of each new comic voice that came along,\u201d Newman says. \u201cAnd with the recent hires \u2014 Veronika [Slowikowska], I noticed her. I thought, \u2018God, this girl is really good,\u2019 and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nearly 50 years after she made her debut as an original castmember on Saturday Night Live, Laraine Newman continues to be an avid fan of the NBC sketch comedy series and closely follows its changes. Newman, who became known for such SNL characters as Connie Conehead and Valley girl Sherry, tells The Hollywood Reporter that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015015,"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":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2015014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018SNL-Alum-Laraine-Newman-Reacts-to-Cast-Shake-Up-Says-Her.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015014","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=2015014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}