{"id":2047774,"date":"2025-09-25T00:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2047774"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:33:13","slug":"wanda-sykes-says-kenan-thompson-is-gonna-be-in-a-lot-of-wigs-following-ego-nwodims-snl-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wanda-sykes-says-kenan-thompson-is-gonna-be-in-a-lot-of-wigs-following-ego-nwodims-snl-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanda Sykes Says Kenan Thompson Is ‘Gonna Be in a Lot Of Wigs’ Following Ego Nwodim’s ‘SNL’ Exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last Black woman is leaving the Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> cast.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Ego Nwodim revealed she\u2019s leaving the sketch comedy show<\/a> after seven seasons. Wanda Sykes<\/a> was asked about Nwodim\u2019s departure on a recent episode of Sherri Shepherd\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoy, Kenan’s gonna be in a lot of wigs, huh?\u201d Sykes said of Kenan Thompson<\/a>, SNL<\/em>\u2019s longest-serving cast member.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI hope they announce when there is someone \u2018cause it’s important\u2014representation is important,\u201d Sykes continued. \u201cI know for me to be sitting here is because I saw Moms Mabley and Marsha Warfield, and of course, Whoopi Goldberg. I got to see them, and that made me go, \u2018Okay, I can do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

On Sept. 12, Nwodim took to Instagram to announce she will be exiting SNL<\/em> before its next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut after seven unforgettable seasons, I have decided to leave SNL. I am immensely grateful to [creator and showrunner] Lorne Michaels for the opportunity, to my castmates, the writers, and the crew for their brilliance, support, and friendship.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to Nwodim, Michael Longfellow, Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker, and Emil Wakim also recently announced they would not return for the show\u2019s 51st season<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The last Black woman is leaving the Saturday Night Live cast. Earlier this month, Ego Nwodim revealed she\u2019s leaving the sketch comedy show after seven seasons. Wanda Sykes was asked about Nwodim\u2019s departure on a recent episode of Sherri Shepherd\u2019s show. \u201cBoy, Kenan’s gonna be in a lot of wigs, huh?\u201d Sykes said of Kenan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2047775,"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":[25172],"tags":[334835,352939,379814,379815,21890,377798,350657,374670,357928],"class_list":["post-2047774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-ego-nwodim","tag-kenan-thompson","tag-marsha-warfield","tag-moms-mabley","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-sherri-shepherd","tag-sketch-comedy-show","tag-wanda-sykes","tag-whoopi-goldberg"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Wanda-Sykes-Says-Kenan-Thompson-Is-Gonna-Be-in-a.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047774","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=2047774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2047775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}