Saturday, December 14, 2024

“SNL”: Lorne Michaels Continues Cleaning House as Molly Kearney Exits Show

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Lorne Michaels is cleaning house at “Saturday Night Live” in advance of the 50th season.

Molly Kearney has announced their exit, following Punkie Johnson. Both Molly and Punkie are talented but never quite caught on.

Is that the end or will Michaels continue revising? Part of this may be budgetary, too, as Maya Rudolph is joining the show as Kamala Harris. He’s already got his Trump with the amazing James Austin Johnson. But will “SNL” need more guest players to get through the election?

Stay tuned…

PS Lots of nice notes on the Insta from the other “SNL” players. Very cool!

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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