{"id":2205727,"date":"2025-12-19T18:59:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2205727"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:59:04","slug":"bowen-yang-abruptly-leaving-snl-after-7-seasons-out-of-the-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/bowen-yang-abruptly-leaving-snl-after-7-seasons-out-of-the-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang abruptly leaving &#8216;SNL&#8217; after 7 seasons: &#8216;Out of the blue&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2Fbowen2.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bowen Yang is done at \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d The Post has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old comedian, who joined the Lorne Michaels-created show for Season 45 in 2019, will be departing the long-running program after Saturday night\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s his choice. People have no idea what is really going on,\u201d an insider told The Post on Friday. \u201cThis has come out of the blue, but is no surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Post has reached out to \u201cSNL\u201d and Yang\u2019s reps for further comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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 celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bowen Yang is done at \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d The Post has confirmed. The 35-year-old comedian, who joined the Lorne Michaels-created show for Season 45 in 2019, will be departing the long-running program after Saturday night\u2019s episode. \u201cIt\u2019s his choice. People have no idea what is really going on,\u201d an insider told The Post on Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205728,"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":[25174],"tags":[319952,21751,21741,357366,305353,24075,21890,22335,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2205727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-bowen-yang","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-heidi-gardner","tag-lorne-michaels","tag-nbc","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-snl","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Bowen-Yang-abruptly-leaving-SNL-after-7-seasons-Out-of.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205727","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=2205727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205729,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205727\/revisions\/2205729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}