The comedians and best friends got vulnerable speaking about their friendship and their experiences on NBC\u2019s sketch comedy show<\/a> during Tuesday\u2019s episode of Nwodim\u2019s podcast, Thanks Dad With Ego Nwodim.<\/p>\n \u201cGetting to spend seven years of my time on SNL with you [was] one of life\u2019s greatest gifts,\u201d Nwodim, 37, told Gardner, 42. \u201cIt\u2019s not the easiest place to work, but you were such a huge gift, and I absolutely adore and love you and am so grateful for that time.\u201d<\/p>\n Gardner responded, \u201cI am so honored that we worked so hard there, and then we also worked on our friendship so hard, which wasn\u2019t hard, by the way. I just mean we\u2019re humans, so we have egos, we want things for ourselves, we want to succeed, and there weren\u2019t a lot of times when we were able to succeed in the way we wanted at the exact same time.\u201d<\/p>\n She then broke into tears as she recalled being proud of Nwodim for having the \u201cmoment of the season\u201d with the viral \u201cMiss Eggy\u201d moment<\/a> during Jack Black\u2019s episode in April, calling her \u201cmy favorite person in the world.\u201d <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim recently opened up about their friendship on Nwodim’s podcast (Getty Images) open image in gallery<\/p>\n Ego Nwodim went viral earlier this year for her character \u2018Miss Eggy\u2019 (NBC)<\/p>\n Nwodim then said it\u2019s \u201ceasy to get caught up\u201d in jealousy and ambition while working at SNL<\/a>, but that Gardner was always gracious about her successes. \u201cThere’s just nobody like you and you were just such a light in what can be such a challenging place to so many people,\u201d Nwodim said.<\/p>\n Earlier in the episode, Nwodim and Gardner recalled how they quickly became friends due to a shared dressing room, where they bonded over earnest conversations and naps on their small couch.<\/p>\n \u201cWe got right into it, we went really deep, really fast, which I’m known for \u2014 even in romance,\u201d Nwodim said about their first week together on set.<\/p>\n \u201cOne of us got called to the floor to rehearse a silly sketch, and it\u2019s like, OK, I just told you everything about my life. And the thing you said to me is, I was called to exit, you were like, \u2018Well, that\u2019s more than I know about anyone who works here, and I\u2019ve been here more than a year.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Gardner and Nwodim, who respectively starred on the show for eight and seven years, left the SNL cast<\/a> after season 50 ended. While Gardner hasn\u2019t spoken publicly about her exit, Nwodim announced her departure last month.<\/p>\n \u201cThe hardest part of a great party is knowing when to say goodnight,\u201d she said on Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n The longstanding cast members were two of the most shocking exits in the massive cast shake-up<\/a>, which also saw departures from Devon Walker<\/a>, Emil Wakim, and Michael Longfellow.<\/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":258344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-258343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Heidi](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190318693.jpg\")
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