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Kristin Wiig apparently leaving Saturday Night Live

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WMC2006

As far as I know, when cast members leave SNL, they aren't allowed goodbye shows although past members of Weekend Update (Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler) have in fact said goodbye. Looks like tonight was Kristin Wiig's final SNL.

In tonight's season finale, the final sketch had the cast wearing graduation gowns with host Mick Jagger telling them that Kristin, who had been held back, was leaving after 7 years. Then, each cast member came in one by one to briefly dance with Kristin as the band played 'Goodbye Ruby Tuesday'. Kristin was very emotional as each member came in with one of the last people being executive producer Lorne Michaels. Kristin actually looked fantastic in the final sketch, wearing a little miniskirt which almost rode up on her when one of her castmembers picked her up while dancing.

Some former cast members, including Amy Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Chris Parnell, and possibly one or two others, all joined the regular cast singing GRT as the credits rolled.

Kristin's been a very busy girl over the last year with SNL (where she's been in just about EVERY SINGLE SKETCH the past couple of years) and writing and starring in a movie. Don't know if anyone else might be leaving. We can say goodbye to Kristin's characters Aunt Linda; Gilly; Judy Grimes; the Target lady; and, thankfully, Kat of Garth and Kat who generally appear on Weekend Update. Garth and Kat is my least favorite recurring sketch.

The show overall was average at best. Mick Jagger was the host and musical guest along with Foo Fighters and Jeff Beck.
 
As the article suggests, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis may be leaving as well. In the video posted above, watch Jason as he dances with Kristin. He has trouble keeping his emotioins as Kristin does. After the short dance, he moves to the rear, looks emotional, and then as the entire crowd moves forward as 'Ruby Tuesday' begins, he stays at the back. I could only see him once during the rest of the scene.

With Jason leaving, we lose his impressions of Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, the cop from the 'McIntosh' sketch, and (my favorite) ESPN Classic host Pete Twinkle (...brought to you by Stayfree Maxi Pads!).

All we lose with Andy is a bunch of SNL Digital Shorts, some of which may be funny, but it's no great loss in my opinion.
 
WMC2006 said:
As the article suggests, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis may be leaving as well. In the video posted above, watch Jason as he dances with Kristin. He has trouble keeping his emotioins as Kristin does. After the short dance, he moves to the rear, looks emotional, and then as the entire crowd moves forward as 'Ruby Tuesday' begins, he stays at the back. I could only see him once during the rest of the scene.

With Jason leaving, we lose his impressions of Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, the cop from the 'McIntosh' sketch, and (my favorite) ESPN Classic host Pete Twinkle (...brought to you by Stayfree Maxi Pads!).

All we lose with Andy is a bunch of SNL Digital Shorts, some of which may be funny, but it's no great loss in my opinion.
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In my opinion, SNL has been mostly unfunny for years now. For me, every show has one or two funny skits, but most fall flat. But Wiig, Sudakis, and Samberg are all very talented, and are already doing well in films. Wiig has already done well, and the other two will do fine post SNL.

Actually, a couple of the featured players (Killam and Pharoah in particular) are very talented and can pick up the slack. Now if they can just find better writers, the show would improve immensely.
 
The show needs to scale back to an hour, allowing more focus on developing better skits. I'll miss Wiig and Sudekis-Samberg, not so much.
 
SNL is a relic of times when there weren't the choices for cutting edge current topic and political skits. Now we have The Daily Show and Colbert. SNL isn't talked about as much...it doesn't have the appointment viewing of the old days, that's for sure.
 
WMC2006 said:
With Jason leaving, we lose his impressions of Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, the cop from the 'McIntosh' sketch, and (my favorite) ESPN Classic host Pete Twinkle (...brought to you by Stayfree Maxi Pads!).

All we lose with Andy is a bunch of SNL Digital Shorts, some of which may be funny, but it's no great loss in my opinion.
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Isn't Andy known to play Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg?

Also is Seth Meyers being considered to co-host with Kelly? If he got that job, he could be another one out of SNL.
 
Last night's season finale of SNL was the best SNL season finales I've seen since Will Ferrell's last episode in 2002, and future-Late Night host Jimmy Fallon in 2004. It's the end of an era of course. Since she joined SNL in 2005 as a featured player, then promoted to full-fledged performer one season later, she made a household name of course. Kristen Wiig's departure from SNL is like the late Chet Huntley retiring from NBC News on July 31, 1970 or Tom Brokaw anchoring NBC Nightly News for the last time on December 1, 2004.

Like so many SNL alums, time to move on and to quote the late CBS newsman Walter Cronkite "And That's The Way it Is!"

Thanks for the memoiries Kristen Wiig! Never gonna be the same :(
 
Lkeller said:
WMC2006 said:
As the article suggests, Andy Samberg and Jason Sudeikis may be leaving as well. In the video posted above, watch Jason as he dances with Kristin. He has trouble keeping his emotioins as Kristin does. After the short dance, he moves to the rear, looks emotional, and then as the entire crowd moves forward as 'Ruby Tuesday' begins, he stays at the back. I could only see him once during the rest of the scene.

With Jason leaving, we lose his impressions of Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, the cop from the 'McIntosh' sketch, and (my favorite) ESPN Classic host Pete Twinkle (...brought to you by Stayfree Maxi Pads!).

All we lose with Andy is a bunch of SNL Digital Shorts, some of which may be funny, but it's no great loss in my opinion.
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In my opinion, SNL has been mostly unfunny for years now. For me, every show has one or two funny skits, but most fall flat. But Wiig, Sudakis, and Samberg are all very talented, and are already doing well in films. Wiig has already done well, and the other two will do fine post SNL.

Actually, a couple of the featured players (Killam and Pharoah in particular) are very talented and can pick up the slack. Now if they can just find better writers, the show would improve immensely.
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As the late Tom Snyder said: "They're turning 'Saturday Night Live' into a drama. Slowly. Each year, they keep phasing out more and more comedy."
 
I'm not going to miss Kristin Wiig. I liked Bridesmaids, but it was because of Melissa McCarthy and not Kristin Wiig.
 
Kristen Wiig did get a great sendoff. I think Jimmy Fallon's was better but not as emotional. Will Ferrell was totally different: the entire show was about him leaving! I can't remember any other cast members getting sendoffs like those 3. Not sure if that happened in the early years. Didn't Eddie Murphy just disappear?

I debated this, but I now think Wiig is in the top 1% of female castmembers. Before I thought she fell short. I think Wiig doesn't have the raw talent of Gilda Radner, Cheri Oteri or Maya Rudolph.
 
If SNL's comedy has a flavor over the years, it would have the consistency as something poured straight from the Bass-O-Matic '76 into your awaiting maw.

The Law of Diminishing Returns is well into play.

SNL post 90's is where extremely weak written "comedy" is allowed to languish in mediocrity late at night but be greenlit a 13 episode pilot season the following Fall.

Kristen Wiig had exactly 2 characters during her entire run . Gilly and loud obnoxious woman that may or may not break into song.
 
Abby Elliott also leaving

Joining the list of departing castmembers, Abby Elliot is also leaving SNL. Abby has been with the show for 4 years. Her father is comic Chris Elliott who was on SNL for a year back in 94-95 and he was also one of David Letterman's writers back in Letterman's NBC days. Abby's grandfather, Bob, was part of the old Bob and Ray comedy team.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/08/abby-elliott-latest-member-to-leave-snl/
 
Isn't it time to pull the plug on SNL? No one watches television on late Saturday night.
 
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