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Donnie Ebert wrote:

MrCrowesGarden wrote:Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam both dropped from SNL for the upcoming season. They also dropped Jon Rudnitsky, but I didn't figure anyone cared so much about that.

Dang. I'm surprised Kyle Mooney wasn't the one getting the boot.

I much preferred Killam's Trump to Darryl Hammond's (Hammond's is fine, it's just seem kind of old and worn-out at this point), and I guess this means not a lot of Obama in his final months in office.

I think Pharoah was a funny guy who they never found a good niche for.

Popeye_Card wrote:

Donnie Ebert wrote:

MrCrowesGarden wrote:Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam both dropped from SNL for the upcoming season. They also dropped Jon Rudnitsky, but I didn't figure anyone cared so much about that.

Dang. I'm surprised Kyle Mooney wasn't the one getting the boot.

I much preferred Killam's Trump to Darryl Hammond's (Hammond's is fine, it's just seem kind of old and worn-out at this point), and I guess this means not a lot of Obama in his final months in office.

I think Pharoah was a funny guy who they never found a good niche for.

Yep. He was underused.

Stranger Things 80s lore - at first, the parents being oblivious to all the things going on under their roof seemed too much. But then I remembered my youth, and it seems accurate. We always had one house that parents forfeited the basement or whatnot to the kids- and that is where we hung out. Was trying to think of times parents barged in on some shenanigans - and can't come up with one.

Freed Roger wrote:Stranger Things 80s lore - at first, the parents being oblivious to all the things going on under their roof seemed too much. But then I remembered my youth, and it seems accurate. We always had one house that parents forfeited the basement or whatnot to the kids- and that is where we hung out. Was trying to think of times parents barged in on some shenanigans - and can't come up with one.

Ain't that the truth!! We had a couple go to places, and the shenanigans ensued!

I was thinking surely she'd come down to do some wash at some point.

stlouie_lipp wrote:

Popeye_Card wrote:

Donnie Ebert wrote:

MrCrowesGarden wrote:Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam both dropped from SNL for the upcoming season. They also dropped Jon Rudnitsky, but I didn't figure anyone cared so much about that.

Dang. I'm surprised Kyle Mooney wasn't the one getting the boot.

I much preferred Killam's Trump to Darryl Hammond's (Hammond's is fine, it's just seem kind of old and worn-out at this point), and I guess this means not a lot of Obama in his final months in office.

I think Pharoah was a funny guy who they never found a good niche for.

Yep. He was underused.

I think he was a good impressionist, but I'm not sure to this day if I really thought he was funny. Like I don't know how good he'd be (or if he'd be any good) at doing an original character.

MrCrowesGarden wrote:

stlouie_lipp wrote:

Popeye_Card wrote:

Donnie Ebert wrote:

MrCrowesGarden wrote:Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam both dropped from SNL for the upcoming season. They also dropped Jon Rudnitsky, but I didn't figure anyone cared so much about that.

Dang. I'm surprised Kyle Mooney wasn't the one getting the boot.

I much preferred Killam's Trump to Darryl Hammond's (Hammond's is fine, it's just seem kind of old and worn-out at this point), and I guess this means not a lot of Obama in his final months in office.

I think Pharoah was a funny guy who they never found a good niche for.

Yep. He was underused.

I think he was a good impressionist, but I'm not sure to this day if I really thought he was funny. Like I don't know how good he'd be (or if he'd be any good) at doing an original character.

Maybe, maybe not. They never gave him a shot. Which is a shame, because SNL has been pretty poor at generating original characters in recent years. Typically they pick one person (Wiig, now McKinnon) and write characters for just them.

That's fair. It also makes releasing Killam even stranger considering his Jebediah character on Weekend Update was one of the best they've had recently (although they went to the well too often).

MrCrowesGarden wrote:

stlouie_lipp wrote:

Popeye_Card wrote:

Donnie Ebert wrote:

MrCrowesGarden wrote:Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam both dropped from SNL for the upcoming season. They also dropped Jon Rudnitsky, but I didn't figure anyone cared so much about that.

Dang. I'm surprised Kyle Mooney wasn't the one getting the boot.

I much preferred Killam's Trump to Darryl Hammond's (Hammond's is fine, it's just seem kind of old and worn-out at this point), and I guess this means not a lot of Obama in his final months in office.

I think Pharoah was a funny guy who they never found a good niche for.

Yep. He was underused.

I think he was a good impressionist, but I'm not sure to this day if I really thought he was funny. Like I don't know how good he'd be (or if he'd be any good) at doing an original character.

Yeah. I agree with that. Great, great impressionist. That only goes so far. I can understand the Killam thing more since he was doing more on his own outside of the show (and likely outside of what Lorne was happy/comfortable with) that might interfere with his time on the show.

SNL contracts are weird. When you're signed, there's a clause that if NBC wants to assign you to a sitcom, they have that right. You can reject the first two but then must take the third. I believe there's also some stuff in there that Lorne gets first right of refusal on movies or other projects for a certain length of time. That's why you see him as producer on stuff ranging from "Hot Rod" to Michael Patrick O'Brien's video series "7 Minutes In Heaven." Unless of course they cut you loose, then you're free. Oddly, he has no credit on that movie Killam is directing with Schwarzenegger.