{"id":554108,"date":"2026-07-17T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554108\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T09:01:14","slug":"chloe-fineman-leaving-saturday-night-live-after-7-seasons-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/554108\/","title":{"rendered":"Chloe Fineman Leaving ‘Saturday Night Live’ After 7 Seasons (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: We have the first cast departure following Season 51 of Saturday Night Live<\/a>, and it\u2019s a big one. Chloe Fineman<\/a>, one of the NBC sketch comedy\u2019s standout performers in the past few years, is leaving after seven seasons. <\/p>\n

\n\tFineman already has lined up her next project: she is in negotiations to join Colin Woodell, KJ Apa and Diane Guerrero in Myron Bolitar<\/a>, Netflix\u2019s drama series<\/a> inspired by Harlan Coben\u2019s book series, sources said. A rep for the streamer declined comment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\tFineman joined SNL as a featured player at the start of the 2019-20 season, which was disrupted by the pandemic. She came into her own in the show\u2019s remote spring 2020 episodes with her made-at-home segments showcasing her great impersonation skills that became her SNL calling card.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe roster of celebrities she has memorably portrayed on the show includes Drew Barrymore, Britney Spears, Nicole Kidman, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, JoJo Siwa, Sydney Sweeney, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Coolidge Phoebe Dynevor, convicted felon Anna Delvey as well as SNL\u2018s own Kate McKinnon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOther sketches with her that have gone viral include\u00a0Snack Homiez, Forever 31, Maybelline and the Domingo series alongside Marcello Hernandez. (You can watch some of her top performances below.)<\/p>\n

\n\tUPDATE: Following Deadline\u2019s report, Fineman announced her departure from SNL with a heartfelt note on Instagram next to a carousel of photos and videos from her time on the show, calling her tenure \u201cthe greatest privilege of my life.\u201d She listed highlights (and lessons learnt) from her stay, thanked SNL boss Lorne Michaels and vowed to \u201cnever be too far away.\u201d<\/p>\n

After 7 wonderful seasons at SNL I have decided it\u2019s time for my next chapter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s cliche to say this but working at SNL has been the greatest privilege of my life. I still can\u2019t really believe I got to be a part of it. I fell in love with the place the second I walked through the door. Lorne (if you\u2019re reading this on your burner account) I want you to know that I am forever in your debt.
Every day I was lucky enough to be surrounded by the best people in the business, and I was constantly amazed watching them work. Sewing a JoJo Siwa costume in 10 hours. Writing a cold open at 2pm on a Saturday. Finishing the VFX of a video minutes before dress (I don\u2019t know if \u201cfinishing VFX\u201d is the right technical term but you get the idea).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m definitely not the first to make this observation but it really is funny looking back at it all now, because at the show you get so invested in everything you work on. You sob uncontrollably when your sketch isn\u2019t picked. You storm into a producers office telling them they just made the biggest mistake of their lives. You call everyone you know to complain. And then you look back a few years later and it was a sketch called \u201clipstick for thicc dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s just the show. You respect it so much that you give it absolutely everything you have even when it\u2019s incredibly stupid. So you\u2019re ecstatic when it works out and the most devastated you\u2019ve ever been when it doesn\u2019t. And in the end it doesn\u2019t matter all that much but it did at the moment.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right time. I\u2019m going to miss it a lot. But the people who work there are my family and that place is my home, and I know I\u2019ll never be too far away.<\/p>\n

And I swear to God, one day, sometime in the future, they WILL make lipstick for thicc dogs.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the most recent Season 51, Fineman was the longest-tenured SNL female cast member following the departures last summer of Ego Nwodim and Heidi Gardner.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith her exit, Fineman follows the standard trajectory for successful SNL cast members who leave after the end of their initial seven-year contract. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat practice has evolved over the past decade, with some established performers staying longer. For instance, Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che have been on the show for 13 and 12 seasons, respectively; Mikey Day, a writer behind some of SNL\u2018s most popular sketches in recent years, for 10. Then there is Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured cast member ever and an SNL institution, at 23 years (and counting).<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile she was on SNL, Fineman did voice work, including on Netflix\u2019s Big Mouth and in Despicable Me 4. She also did an arc on Laid and appeared in Freakier Friday and Megalopolis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: We have the first cast departure following Season 51 of Saturday Night Live, and it\u2019s a big…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[171427,93,61,60,227849,5195,282],"class_list":["post-554108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-chloe-fineman","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-myron-bolitar","tag-saturday-night-live","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554108","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=554108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}