EXCLUSIVE : The Saturday Night Live exit carousel continues with Michael Longfellow becoming the latest cast member to leave.

Longfellow joined the show as a featured player in Season 48 and was promoted to the main cast ahead of Season 50.

He joins Devon Walker, who joined at the same time, and Emil Wakim , who are also both leaving ahead of Season 51. More are expected to depart before the season starts.

Longfellow’s departure is somewhat of a surprise given that he was seemingly being primed to take over the Weekend Update desk at some point after some successful stints behind the desk, joking about topics such as TikTok and Real ID . He even appeared on Weekend Update on his first ever show (see below).

In May, he joked that he wasn’t on the show much in Season 50.

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