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Final week, we reported on some shocking solid shakeups at Saturday Night time Dwell.
Within the area of some days, 4 solid members — Emil Wakim, Devon Walker, Michael Longfellow, and Heidi Gardner — introduced that they might not be returning for the sketch present’s 51st season.
Of all of the departures, Gardner’s was essentially the most shocking, as she had grown right into a fan favourite and developed a repute as an imminently dependable performer throughout her eight seasons on the solid.
Now, we’re studying extra about what went down between SNL and its longest-tenured feminine star. And it seems like the 2 didn’t half on amicable phrases.
Heidi Gardner attends the 2022 ESPYs at Dolby Theatre on July 20, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Picture by Leon Bennett/Getty Pictures)
Dana Carvey shares new intel about current ‘SNL’ massacre
Showing on David Spade’s podcast this week, SNL alum Dana Carvey shared what he knew concerning the shocking Gardiner scenario.
“From what I know as of this recording, it was not her idea to leave,” Carvey stated, including that he “could be wrong.”
“That would be a little shocking,” Spade replied, “because she really is one of the core ones you know from that show and she does a great job.”
“You never know, and it is a hard thing, but I was really, really surprised,” Carvey agreed.
Heidi Gardner attends the Los Angeles Premiere Of Netflix’s “Quarterback” at TUDUM Theater on July 11, 2023 in Hollywood, California. (Picture by JC Olivera/Getty Pictures)
The veteran comics additionally spoke concerning the different dismissed solid members, with Carvey revealing that he had spoken with Walker about his struggles on the present.
Rumors of poisonous, hyper-competitive atmosphere at ‘SNL’ persist
“Devon had told me that when you don’t get on the show a lot,” Carvey stated.
“Then when you get out there and you have a moment, you’re not relaxed because it’s like, if you don’t score here, you go back in line. So, it can be emotionally violent depending where you are in the show or it could be a magic ride.”
When addressing his termination on Instagram, Walker conceded that the atmosphere at SNL was generally “toxic.”
For his half, Longfellow reportedly appeared “super bummed” when discussing his SNL departure throughout a current standup efficiency in Brooklyn.
Heidi Gardner attends A24’s “Death Of A Unicorn” New York Screening at AMC Lincoln Sq. Theater on March 11, 2025 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by John Nacion/Getty Pictures)
“He was downcast. He was trying to hide it, but you could tell it sucked for him,” one viewers member advised The Every day Beast.
One other one who attended claimed on Reddit that Longfellow bemoaned the truth that he was fired so publicly.
“My neighbor knows I’m fired,” he reportedly stated on stage. “I don’t actually know my neighbor. He doesn’t know me. But he knows I’m fired.”
Earlier this week, SNL introduced the hiring of 5 new solid members to interchange the celebs who won’t be returning.
Gardner, Longfellow, Walker, and Wakim are all wildly proficient performers, and we’re certain they’ve brilliant futures forward of them.
However getting fired at all times sucks. And being unceremoniously dismissed from such a vaunted establishment as Saturday Night time Dwell has actually gotta sting.
