Goodbye from New York?
The “Saturday Night Live” Season 50 finale got here to an abrupt finish on Could 17, leaving audiences speculating who from the solid could also be leaving the present for good.
Host Scarlett Johansson closed out the present with a standard goodbye alongside the remainder of the solid. Nevertheless, the NBC selection present then rapidly reduce to a business for a “Suits L.A.” advert, which, paradoxically, was canceled after Season 1. This system ended at 1:02 a.m., two minutes previous the traditional ending time on the East Coast.
The snafu led to audiences speculating who from the solid is leaving the present for good. In any case, many stars are inclined to exit Studio 8H for the final time following a season finale.
“Lorne Michaels, wherever you are. You’re not gonna want me to single you out, but congratulations. You are a singular man,” Johansson mentioned onstage concerning the “SNL” creator’s landmark season.
Bowen Yang, for his half, emotionally hugged castmate Sarah Sherman through the closing. “If Bowen is leaving I won’t be shocked,” one viewer wrote on X, previously Twitter.
One other individual wrote: “It looked like Bowen was having long heartfelt hugs with everyone so he’s my only guess to be leaving. Would explain some of the sketches they did for him [tonight].”
In April, Yang blatantly informed Those that he would go away the present “at some point.”
“SNL, it’s just this moving, living, breathing thing,” the “Wicked” star mentioned. “Especially after the 50th, I’m seeing what life after the show is like and how beautiful it is, and how so many people, no matter how long they were at the show, are just with their families and loving their lives and not letting the years take away any of that experience for them.”
Mikey Day and Heidi Gardner additionally appeared sentimental and gave a number of hugs to the solid and crew.
It’s nonetheless unclear if Johansson’s newest internet hosting gig was husband Colin Jost and Michael Che’s final time behind the “Weekend Update” desk, too. Followers have speculated that the pair will take the monumental fiftieth season as the chance to formally retire.
In February, Che even proclaimed “I’m not coming back, don’t worry,” throughout a stand-up present on the College of Rochester.
In a single notable second, the “Jurassic Park Rebirth” actress, 40, joined Che, 41, and Jost, 42, for his or her “Weekend Update” section through the NBC selection present.
“Before I tell another joke, I wanna take this opportunity to apologize to someone I hurt, Scarlett, can you come out here?” Che requested. “Y’know, last time we did joke-swap, I made Colin do some tasteless jokes comparing your vagina to Costco roast beef.”
“The fact is I was just lashing out because I’m jealous,” he joked. “I’ve never even seen a human vagina. And notice I said ‘human,’ because I once spent the summer on a farm. You feel me?”
Che then went in for a high-five, which Johansson declined.
“And, Colin, I’m sorry too. Because I owe you everything,” Jost compelled Che to say. “When Colin discovered me, I was selling crack outside the Bronx Zoo. And now look at me, selling crack outside the American Girl doll store.”
In Dec. 2024, Johansson made a cameo backstage whereas Che and Jost did their annual joke swap. The actress was given a heads up that Che would make a jab about her, however she didn’t know the way vulgar it actually could be.
On the time, Che made Jost learn off the teleprompter: “Costco has removed the roast beef sandwich from its menu. But I ain’t trippin’. I’ve been eating roast beef every night since my wife had the kid.”
Jost and Johansson, who married in 2020, are mother and father of son Cosmo, 3. She additionally shares daughter Rose, 10, with ex-husband Romain Dauriac.
“I feel like it’s almost my responsibility to come up with some way to burn Michael back,” Johansson informed Vainness Truthful in a profile simply days earlier than Saturday’s present. “Retaliation, I’d say, should be expected. Others on the show could support this desire. Know what I mean?”
In March, she informed InStyle: “I just can’t believe that they went there. I was like — it was so gross. It was really gross,” she went on. “And, like, old-school gross.”
Johansson’s episode additionally featured Mike Myers and Dangerous Bunny because the musical visitor.
Johansson made historical past on Saturday evening, internet hosting the present for the seventh time. This made her the feminine star to have hosted “SNL” essentially the most instances, beating out Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore.
She beforehand hosted in January 2006, April 2007, November 2010, Could 2015, March 2017 and December 2019. She’s made cameos all through the historic present, together with doing a number of sketches for its three-hour fiftieth anniversary particular, which aired on Feb. 16.
Alec Baldwin, in the meantime, leads essentially the most instances for a male star internet hosting with a whopping 17 episodes.
