Their last regular appearances will be the final show of the 47th season on Saturday, sources told Deadline, and it may include a group goodbye.
There were no immediate details on why theyre leaving, but most have increasingly taken on new creative projects outside the program.
A future successful SNL mix is critical to NBC. In the 2020-2021 season, it was the most-watched entertainment program on TV among viewers between the ages of 18 and 49, the demographic preferred by advertisers, according to Variety.
Both McKinnon and Bryant have been with SNL since 2012.
McKinnon has convincingly morphed on SNL into a wild series of various characters from Rudy Giuliani to Kellyanne Conway , Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justin Bieber, Sen. Elizabeth Warren , Hillary Clinton, Jeff Sessions and Amy Coney Barrett.
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Davidson joined SNL in 2014 when he was just 20. He has been the star and organizer of a wide range of sly, hilarious, sophisticated music videos on the program, nailed the super-slacker character Chad, and was a smart-mouthed commentator on Weekend Update. Hes been straight-up about his personal life on the show, including his battles with mental health, and did a desperate, quirky Jared Kushner .
Davidsons current starring role is as the real-life boyfriend of Kim Kardashian . The two connected last October on the Saturday Night Live set, where Davidson played a seriously out-sexed Aladdin to Kardashians steamy Princess Jasmine on a flying carpet, no less.
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