{"id":216226,"date":"2025-12-19T15:16:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/bowen-yang-to-exit-saturday-night-live-after-ariana-grande-hosted-episode-reports-3\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:16:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:16:05","slug":"bowen-yang-to-exit-saturday-night-live-after-ariana-grande-hosted-episode-reports-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/bowen-yang-to-exit-saturday-night-live-after-ariana-grande-hosted-episode-reports-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang to Exit \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 After Ariana Grande-Hosted Episode:\u00a0Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tBowen Yang<\/a> is leaving Saturday Night Live<\/em> after the Saturday, Dec. 20, episode, Variety<\/a><\/em> and Deadline<\/a><\/em> report. The episode \u2014 which is the long-running show\u2019s last new one of the year \u2014 is set to be hosted by his Wicked<\/em> costar Ariana Grande, with Cher as the musical guest.<\/p>\n

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\n\tNeither SNL<\/em> nor the actor have confirmed the news. Billboard<\/em> has reached out to the show and Yang\u2019s reps.<\/p>\n

\n\tYang\u2019s reported exit comes in the midst of season 51. He first joined the show in 2018 as a writer, before being promoted to a feature player in 2019 for season 45. By season 47, the breakout star \u2014 who stars as Pfannee in Wicked<\/em> and Wicked: For Good<\/em> \u2014 had become a full cast member. During his tenure on NBC\u2019s hit late-night sketch show, Yang was nominated for multiple Primetime Emmy awards, including outstanding writing for a variety series in 2019, and outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series each year in 2021, 2022, 2024 and 2025. <\/p>\n

\n\tSome of his most notable characters on SNL<\/em> include the iceberg that sank the Titanic, his portrayal of disgraced U.S. representative George Santos, viral baby hippo Moo Deng and Chinese trade representative Chen Biao.<\/p>\n

\n\tYang\u2019s exit from the show is the latest of 2025. Ahead of the current season\u2019s Oct. 4 premiere, Devon Walker, Emil Wakim, Michael Longfellow and Heidi Gardner all left. Shortly after the cast of season 51 was confirmed by multiple outlets, Ego Nwodim announced on Sept. 12 that she, too, would not be back.<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore the season premiered, show creator Lorne Michaels told Puck that he felt \u201cpressure to reinvent this season.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tSaturday Night Live<\/em> airs Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. on NBC, and streams the following day on Peacock<\/a>.<\/p>\n


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Bowen Yang is leaving Saturday Night Live after the Saturday, Dec. 20, episode, Variety and Deadline report. The episode \u2014 which is the long-running show\u2019s last new one of the year \u2014 is set to be hosted by his Wicked costar Ariana Grande, with Cher as the musical guest. Related Every \u2018Saturday Night Live\u2019 Cast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}