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By Lisa Respers France, celebrity.land<\/p>\n
(celebrity.land) \u2014 <\/b>If you thought Bowen Yang was over being emotional about leaving \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d<\/a> you would be mistaken.<\/p>\n The now former \u201cSNL\u201d cast member gave the exit interview we all definitely needed when he talked about his experience on the latest episode of \u201cLas Culturistas,\u201d<\/a> the podcast he co-hosts with his best friend Matt Rogers.<\/p>\n Rogers began in the episode, titled \u201cExit Interview (The Cathartic Episode),\u201d by joking that anyone who didn\u2019t know that Yang had left the long-running NBC sketch show after seven and a half years must be living under \u201cnot even a rock, a boulder, a big rock.\u201d<\/p>\n Yang said it was \u201ctime,\u201d and that prior to the pandemic and the \u201cthe current media landscape,\u201d seven years was usually the time most cast members would head off for other pastures.<\/p>\n \u201cIn a lot of cases (cast members) don\u2019t have the like, privilege of staying on as long as they would like to,\u201d he said. \u201cI have this very beautiful thing where I get to say that I stayed on exactly as long as I wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like landing the Mars rover on like a square foot of terrain,\u201d Yang said of his last \u201cSNL\u201d appearance on December 20, which saw him engaging in sketches with the evening\u2019s host \u2013 and his \u201cWicked\u201d costar \u2013 Ariana Grande, along with one final sketch that involved the night\u2019s musical guest Cher. \u201cIt was like, there were no guarantees about how any of it was gonna shake out.\u201d<\/p>\n Listeners of the podcast also learned some life lessons via Yang on \u201cSNL,\u201d including that \u201cworking there is just making peace with the fact that like, things are completely out of your control. Down to the audience response to a joke,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n \u201cNothing is guaranteed. Like that is sort of it in a nutshell,\u201d Yang said. \u201cIt kind of is perfectly illustrative of what that job is. And it was resonant all the way through to the end. And I feel really \u2013 this word is meaningless I think maybe now \u2013 but so grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n His cohost disagreed that it was meaningless, given that \u201cthere probably were so many times during that experience where you didn\u2019t know if you were going to be able to end the experience of working there with gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n