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Devon Walker set the record straight for his exit Saturday night live Before season 51.
“To be honest, I guess the best way for me to put is like me and the kind of show looked at each other and we decided together that it’s time to go on our ways apart,” Walker, 34, told Rolled stone In an interview announced on Saturday, August 30. “I think I feel ready to leave the show, and I think the show felt ready to leave me. I was ready to do something else. We both felt it was time. This was such a big time commitment, and the commitment of life. I made me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me make me I made me make me make me make me make that I made me make me make me do it.
Walker surprise Swallow Fans when he announced on Monday, August 25, that he Leaving NBC Sketch Show After three seasons. His announcement was the first in a series of exits that would also see Michael Longfellow. Emil Wakim and Heidi Gardner all departure Saturday night live.
In his announcement, Walker appeared to suggest that he had a complex experience working on Saturday night liveadmitting “Sometimes he was very cool (AC) Sometimes he was toxic as hell.”
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“We made the most of what it was, even in the midst of all the malfunction,” he wrote. “We did af *** ed up Lil Family.”
Talking to Rolled stoneWalker obviously humiliated any insinuation that bad blood between him and Swallow.
“I worked at the show in my two first season with two of my best friends in the world – (writers) Gary Richardson and Alex English”He drew attention.“ For me, that really felt like a family. And you spend so much time together, we see each other more than we see our families. Can be in that environment, in the fox hole with two people who are so close to me – I feel very grateful for that. “
The actor went on, “And even people I didn’t know before, as James Austin Johnson. I never met him a day in my life before I started in SwallowAnd that guy really looked out for me in ways he didn’t really have to. There are people there who, even if you didn’t know each other before, fake a bond with them. “
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Will Heath/NBC via Getty ImagesWalker mentioned that he loves a “brotherhood” environment Swallow This allowed him to interact with the legendary members of the cast at the 50th anniversary of February.
“I might see, like, Adam SandlerDid you know, and he talks about how hand -custom, ”said the comic.” Although he went through the show 30 years before I ever got there, we know what it is. There is just an understanding that anyone who has ever worked there will always share. “
In terms of the future, Walker insisted he was “really exciting” for whatever comes next in his career.
“I think when someone leaves SwallowThe impulse of people is supposed to be like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, ”acknowledged.” But for me, coming on Swallow is such a blessing. I never even trained to do that thing. That’s just like God’s thing, fortunately happened to have come to be on that show. I’m proud of a lot of the work I did there, but wait until people get to see the things I really want to do. “
Fans – and even faster Swallow Cast members – have been buzzing with what other changes may occur behind the scenes before season 51 began. Former Swallow star Punkie Johnson – who left the show after four years in 2024 – perfect hold the whiplash effect Many fans have been feeling.
Responding to Instagram County announcing the departure of Longfellow, Johnson wrote, 40: “WTF happens … this is like The deceased… My sexually sexual work husband … I love you so much … I’ll call you … Welcome back outside the baby…. I’ll see you out here soon. “
Saturday night live returns this fall on NBC.
