{"id":96007,"date":"2025-08-27T09:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96007\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T09:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T09:29:09","slug":"snls-devon-walker-calls-show-sometimes-toxic-as-hell-as-he-announces-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/96007\/","title":{"rendered":"SNL\u2019s Devon Walker calls show \u2018sometimes toxic as hell\u2019 as he announces exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Saturday Night Live <\/a>star Devon Walker has announced his departure from the show after three seasons.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old comedian joined the cast in 2022<\/a> after writing for the Netflix sitcom Big Mouth and parodied celebrities and politicians, such as Michael Strahan and Tim Scott, during his time on the NBC sketch show.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMe and baby broke up,\u201d Walker announced on Instagram Monday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me, jobs in this industry feel like a bunch of little marriages. Some of \u2019em last for a long time, but most of them are fleeting. Permanent until they\u2019re not. That\u2019s the deal. You know what it is when you sign up,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell. But \u2026 we made the most of what it was, even amidst all the dysfunction. We made a f***ed up lil family.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In a separate Instagram Story, Walker added: \u201cJust to be clear, this is good news! It was just time for me to do something different. Please don\u2019t be hitting me with the \u2018I\u2019m so sorry\u2019 \u2014 we not on that at ALL. Sometimes mom and dad just don\u2019t see things eye to eye.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was supported in the comments section of his original post by his SNL co-stars. Chloe Fineman wrote: \u201cI\u2019ll miss being your pregnant wife all the time!!!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI love you,\u201d Heidi Gardner added while Ziwe Fumudoh commented with two love heart emojis.<\/p>\n

\"\u2018SNL\u2019\u2018SNL\u2019 star Devon Walker has announced his exit from the show after three seasons (Getty)<\/p>\n

The news comes after SNL boss Lorne Michaels promised a major shake-up<\/a> ahead of Season 51, which is scheduled to premiere October 4.<\/p>\n

Michaels told Puck he didn\u2019t want any \u201cdisruptions\u201d or \u201canything that was going to take the focus off\u201d the 50th season, so he decided to keep the cast mostly the same. \u201cAnd we had an election,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

However, this season, he feels \u201cthe pressure to reinvent,\u201d promising new cast members, including on the popular \u201cWeekend Update\u201d segment.<\/p>\n

Also announcing their exit was SNL\u2019s first out trans writer, Celeste Yim.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m leaving my job at Saturday Night Live. Lorne hired me over the phone when I was 23 and the job literally made all of my dreams come true,\u201d Yim posted to Instagram Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Acknowledging the tumultuous and often stressful nature of the gig, Yim continued: \u201cBUT it was also grueling and I slept in my office every week BUT my friends helped me with everything BUT I got yelled at by random famous men BUT some famous girls too BUT I loved it and I laughed every day and it\u2019s where I grew up.\u201d<\/p>\n

They concluded: \u201cI always felt honored to be working within the long tradition of queer writing at the show,\u201d and though, \u201cI feel so powerless to protect trans people in the world… writing connects us and makes us permanent, so it\u2019s what I will continue to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

SNL returns to NBC on October 4 at 11:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-96007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}