Ego Nwodim has her reasons for leaving Saturday Night Live . She just wanted to get some strange! Acting opportunities, that is. “It’s like being in a marriage. I’ve never done it before, but that show was my longest relationship ever,” Nwodim told Sherri Shepherd on November 5. “I’m not a commitment-phobe, but I heard when you’re married, you get the seven-year itch. And it’s like, ‘I wanna date other people! I wanna see some other privates!’”

Nwodim looks back fondly on her seven years at SNL. “I truly did learn so much there and I had so much fun,” she said. “I miss my colleagues, but it felt like the time to make space for something else for me.” Nwodim joined the cast in 2018 as a featured player and moved up to the main cast in 2020. She was the seventh Black woman hired t

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