"If you know anything about Saturday Night Live at all beyond what you see live from New York, it's probably that it's a notoriously crazy place to work. Putting together an entire 90 minutes of television in less than a week is an enormous challenge, and the show's infamous Tuesday-night writing sessions in which writers and cast members stay up until 4 a.m. or so writing sketches to present at read-through the following afternoon are the stuff of legend."
"The pair discussed the show's competitive atmosphere, with Nwodim pointing out that we have egos and want things for ourselves and we want to succeed, and there weren't a lot of times when we were able to succeed in the way we wanted at the exact same time. Nwodim, who also left the show ahead of Season 51, added that she'd hoped the cast could be winning together so they could have a full celebration and not one of us mourning or frustrated."
"The most recent instance of this happened last week when Heidi Gardner, who departed the show after eight seasons this year (reportedly not willingly), appeared on her former castmate Ego Nwodim's podcast Thanks Dad and called SNL a challenging place to work. "It's not the easiest place to work, but you were such a huge gift, and I absolutely adore and love you," Nwodim responded."
Saturday Night Live compresses ninety minutes of live television into less than a week, with late-night writing sessions that often run until 4 a.m. The production pace and the disappointment of sketches not airing are intrinsic to the job. The workplace dynamic includes intense competition, frequent ego clashes, and limited opportunities for simultaneous success among cast and writers. These pressures can produce strained morale and departures after multiple seasons. Cast and writers often try to make the most of the experience despite persistent dysfunction and challenging working conditions.
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