Saturday Night Live has undergone a fairly large cast shakeup ahead of its 51st season, with five departing and five new cast members joining. Creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels broke his silence about the changes Sunday night on the Emmys red carpet.

“The show has always brought people in from different ages and different generations and it’s how it revives itself, Michaels told Entertainment Tonight . “It’s always hard when people leave but there’s a time for that and our audiences always stayed relatively young and more so now with Tik Tok, and change is good. And the people we’re bringing in I’m really excited about.”

The most recent to announce her departure was Ego Nwodim, who revealed she was leaving after seven season and after the news that Heidi Gardner,

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