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I'm fairly certain that the only reason Lorne has stayed on for so long is he knows that once he leaves SNL is just one bad season away from going away forever.

I'm not sure if I even want a post Lorne SNL at this point. 10 years ago I would've said absolutely, let's see what Tina Fey or whoever can do with the show. Now, I just don't care or see it as necessary. It'd probably be friggin Colin Jost as the heir apparent anyway.
 
Lorne has insane clout and could pick the successor this time. I'd give that a definite shot because it means Saturday Night Conan could maybe semi be in play.
 
I think everyone assumed Tina would take over but she's said she has no interest at all.
 
Franken is "only" 70 despite being in show business close to 50 years. He was only 24 when he started on SNL.

I've heard Judd Apatow's name mentioned replacing Lorne. Please no.
 
Superior Fallon. Also the last thing I saw her in was getting viciously murdered in The House That Jack Built so I wanna know if Lorne is better than Lars Von Trier.
 
I'd be into that. Mrs. T would finally know who I am.
 
Siobhan Fallon refused to do a bunch of sketches in s 17 because of her strict Catholic beliefs. Hardcore, super religious right wing Trump supporter.
 
Siobhan Fallon has a Random Roles on AV Club today and I guess movie she's promoting is a Taken ripoff she wrote, directed, and starred in in the Liam Neeson role.

I'm ready to bump her back up to Best Fallon.

Edit- Reading reviews, it seems like she's falsely marketing it as a Taken-esque revenge thriller. Jimmy is back at #1.
 
Lorne said in the post-Emmys media scrum that he couldn't say anything about the Season 47 cast but strongly implied/basically Jason Sudekis is hosting the season premiere and Cecily Strong and Pete Davidson are coming back for another year.
 
This will be Cecily's 10th season.

Nice to Sudeikis back. You know there will be Wiig and Armisen cameos.

At this point it's safe to say no one is ever leaving the show. If Aidy and Kate come back (they are) there will be four cast members with decade plus seasons on the show

Also Chris Rock has announced he has Covid. And implied he's not doing well
 
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People still care about the Kardashians, or at least care about how much they hate the Kardashians enough to hate-watch them.
 
First time hosting for Owen Wilson 25 years after become famous. Amazing it took him this long to host.

First four shows are all first time hosts.

KKW seems like she should have hosted in 2009 or something when the show still paid attention to her. With the way the show is now I'm sure she'll be in a few pretapes and just play herself in most sketches while everyone reacts to her. The show really doesn't ask much of the host anymore
 
https://twitter.com/x/status/1442519716623372288
James Austin Johnson does 2nd best Trump I've seen after Anthony Antamanuik so hopefully he replaces Baldwin. Not familiar with other two.

SNL is also changing directors for first time in 15 years so I'll consider myself cautiously optimistic for this weekend. Crazy to think this will be only the fifth director in history of SNL but then again, there's only been three executive producers so I guess not really.
 
Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt aren't returning for this season. I had to Google Lauren Holt to remember which new featured player she was. I guess they were like "Eh. I guess we're not getting ready of Aidy Bryant so no need for two plus sized castmembers." :(

Beck not coming back is somewhat surprising. I have always liked him. So long SNL's shirtless Putin :(
 
So basically more of the same. Same old faces dominating the show.

Somewhat surprised Kyle didn't leave with Beck
 
Beck has been very solid during his stay. I’ll legit miss him on the show.

Lauren seemed fine, but wasn’t there long enough to leave an impression. Felt like she was there to be the new Aidy, which isn’t really a fair comparison on my part.

Bowen, and Chloe have been upped to featured cast members. The internet doesn’t seem to agree with me, but I think Bowen is just bad.
 
Looks like the Kate/Cecily/Aidy trio will continue dominating the show. They all will be entering their 10th season (well Kate technically 11 as she joined near end of season 37).

I mean I like them all but I like overhaul in my casts.

Nobody leaves anymore
 
Sad fact of the matter is that SNL will never do a massive overhaul of the cast as long as Lorne is alive/in charge. Last even somewhat major overhaul was in 2013-14. Lorne implied that he wanted Kate, Aidy, Kenan, etc all to stay around until Season 50. THAT'S FOUR MORE SEASONS OF THESE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN ON FOR WAY TOO LONG! John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd were only on the show for four seasons!
 
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