Ego Nwodim opened up about her shocking exit from Saturday Night Live and her hopes for the sketch comedy show going forward. SNL has only ever had eight Black female cast members: Nwodim, Maya Rudolph, Sasheer Zamata, Leslie Jones, Punkie Johnson, Yvonne Hudson, Danitra Vance, and Ellen Cleghorne.

Nwodim's exit means there are no Black women in the current cast.

Nwodim appeared on Sherri this week and reflected on her time on SNL. She admitted (via Variety ) that while she didn't feel the " weight " of what her casting meant for representation on SNL , she " felt honored " to be only the seventh Black woman in the cast (Johnson joined two years later).

The SNL alum represented a " myriad of characters, different types of characters ." She claimed that sometimes

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