{"id":108353,"date":"2025-10-30T06:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108353\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T06:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T06:21:09","slug":"heidi-gardner-ego-nwodim-call-snl-a-challenging-place-get-emotional-recalling-their-time-on-nbc-sketch-show-following-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/108353\/","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Gardner &#038; Ego Nwodim Call \u2018SNL\u2019 A \u201cChallenging Place\u201d &#038; Get Emotional Recalling Their Time On NBC Sketch Show Following Exits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm5906920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Gardner<\/a> and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4945455\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ego Nwodim<\/a> exited <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a> ahead of the Season 51 premiere on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0893655\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner had been on the late-night sketch show for eight seasons while Nwodim, who was initially expected to return, announced her exit following seven seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a> alum recently recalled their time on the show, revealing it was a \u201cchallenging place\u201d to work.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner made an appearance on Nwodim\u2019s Thanks Dad podcast, where they revealed they shared a dressing room and formed a friendship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the easiest place to work, but you were such a huge gift, and I absolutely adore and love you,\u201d Nwodim told Gardner.<\/p>\n<p>Nwodim recalled a situation on the show where she had \u201ctwo sketches on or something,\u201d and noticed Gardner was \u201cfrustrated about something.\u201d Nwodim recalled Gardner telling her, \u201cI want you to know I\u2019m frustrated, but I\u2019m happy for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related: \u2018<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0072562\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SNL<\/a>\u2019 Stars <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6299248\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bowen Yang<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim exited Saturday Night Live ahead of the Season 51 premiere on NBC. Gardner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9721,9722,9718,9720,9719,156,434,4223,111,139,69,9723,5436,417,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-108353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-cinema","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-realisateurs","20":"tag-stars","21":"tag-television","22":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}