Saturday Night Live star Bowen Yang opened up to People magazine about his place on the legendary sketch comedy show amid a series of increasingly shocking cast exits in recent weeks.

Speaking to the magazine at a pre-Emmys celebration where he was being honored, Yang said of his decision to stay at Studio 8H, “I’ve always gone by the instinct of: Do I have more to do? And I feel like I do.”

“Even Lorne and I talked about it,” Yang continued, invoking the show’s creator, 80-year-old Lorne Michaels. “Lorne was like, ‘You have more to do,’ and that means a lot. Because I even confessed to him: I was like, ‘I feel the audience is maybe getting sick of me.’ And he was like, ‘That’s not true. There’s more for you to do. I need you.’”

“I have to honor that,” said the 34-year-old, who will com

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