"Lorne Michaels doesn't want Saturday Night Livefans to be too torn up about the cast changes for the 51st season of the show. "The show has always brought people in from different ages and different generations, and it has to," he told Entertainment Tonight on the Emmys red carpet on September 14. "It's how it revives itself." In other words, SNL is constantly molting, and that means that sometimes it sheds a cast member or two (or, in this year's case, five)."
"SNL added five new cast members as featured players, all of whom occupy different areas of modern comedy: There's TikTok sketch comedian Veronika Slowikowska, Kill Tony regular Kam Patterson, stand-up Tommy Brennan, Dropout star Jeremy Culhane, and Ben Marshall, whose group Please Don't Destroy made SNL video shorts from 2021 to 2025. That's a one in, one out policy. "Change is good," Michaels promised. "The people we're bringing in I'm really excited about." But can these cast members sing "Espresso" off-key at a wedding reception?"
Saturday Night Live will begin season 51 on October 4 with a refreshed cast. Five season 50 members — Heidi Gardner, Ego Nwodim, Michael Longfellow, Emil Wakim, and Devon Walker — will not return. The show continues bringing in talent across ages and generations to revive itself, maintaining a relatively young audience influenced by TikTok. Five new featured players join: TikTok sketch comedian Veronika Slowikowska, Kill Tony regular Kam Patterson, stand-up Tommy Brennan, Dropout star Jeremy Culhane, and Ben Marshall, whose group Please Don't Destroy produced SNL video shorts from 2021 to 2025. The change follows a one-in, one-out approach.
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