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Bowen Yang<\/a> confirmed that December 20 will be his last episode of Saturday Night Live<\/a> as a cast member. He shared his good-bye statement on Instagram the morning before his final show. \u201ci loved working at SNL, and most of all i loved the people,\u201d Yang began. \u201ci was there at a time when many things in the world started to seem futile, but working at 30 rock taught me the value in showing up anyway when people make it worthwhile.\u201d This confirmation from the comedian came one day after the news was reported, but he did not release a statement at the time. A final show<\/a> with Ariana Grande<\/a> hosting and Cher<\/a> performing is the perfect send-off for him. Yang concluded, \u201cthank you to lorne for the job. for the standard. and for bringing everyone at work together. they all care deeply about people in the room, any room, enjoying themselves. i can\u2019t believe i was ever included in that.\u201d<\/p>\n During his seven and a half seasons on\u00a0SNL, Yang earned four Emmy nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and countless Halloween<\/a> costume<\/a> inspirations<\/a> for fans, including the Titanic iceberg<\/a>. He began his time on the show in 2018 as a writer for season 44<\/a> before getting promoted to a featured player<\/a> the following year. Since his start on the show, Yang has expanded to making people laugh on the big screen as well, including the Wicked<\/a> movies. While Yang hasn\u2019t shared what\u2019s next for him, he still has his podcast,\u00a0Las Culturistas,<\/a>\u00a0with Matt Rogers. So, for any SNL fans missing Yang, they can convert themselves from a TV watcher into a Reader<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Dia Dipasupil\/WireImage Bowen Yang confirmed that December 20 will be his last episode of Saturday Night Live…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[106957,321,1049,106958,93,61,60,5195,15824,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-202858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-bowen-yang","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-comedy","11":"tag-departures","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-saturday-night-live","16":"tag-snl","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}