{"id":28542,"date":"2014-09-15T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=28542"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T15:09:47","slug":"mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/09\/15\/mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike O&#8217;Brien Dropped from &#8220;SNL&#8221; Cast, Pete Davidson Added"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The emergence of news about the September 27 &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; premiere should not have been treated as proof that the iconic NBC variety show was done shaking up its cast.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, NBC announced that Michael Che would replace Cecily Strong on the &#8220;Weekend Update&#8221; panel.  Strong will return to a full slate of sketch duties.<\/p>\n<p>This week, sources have already confirmed two more changes to the show.<\/p>\n<p>Deadline reported Monday that writer Mike O&#8217;Brien, who debuted as a featured player last season, will not possess that role this year.  While he will not completely depart the show alongside cut featured players Brooks Wheelan, Noel Wells and John Milhiser and exiting repertory player Nasim Pedrad, he will depart the front of the &#8220;SNL&#8221; camera and return to the writers&#8217; room.<\/p>\n<p>Per NBC&#8217;s SNL Twitter account, Pete Davidson will meanwhile join the cast as a featured player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1048],"tags":[210,2905,666],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike O&#039;Brien Dropped from &quot;SNL&quot; Cast, Pete Davidson Added<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The emergence of news about the September 27 &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; premiere should not have been treated as proof that the iconic NBC variety show was\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/09\/15\/mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike O&#039;Brien Dropped from &quot;SNL&quot; Cast, Pete Davidson Added\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The emergence of news about the September 27 &quot;Saturday Night Live&quot; premiere should not have been treated as proof that the iconic NBC variety show was\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/09\/15\/mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Headline Planet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-09-15T15:09:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SNL-Cast-e1410793780570.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"546\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Brian Cantor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@cantorpedia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@headlineplanet\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/09\/15\/mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/09\/15\/mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added\/\",\"name\":\"Mike O'Brien Dropped from \\\"SNL\\\" Cast, Pete Davidson Added\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-09-15T15:09:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-15T15:09:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\"},\"description\":\"The emergence of news about the September 27 \\\"Saturday Night Live\\\" premiere should not have been treated as proof that the iconic NBC variety show was\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2014\/09\/15\/mike-obrien-dropped-snl-cast-pete-davidson-added\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/\",\"name\":\"Headline Planet\",\"description\":\"Music News &amp; Charts, TV News &amp; Spoilers\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/b530255b81ceb7463ea060a9b8a302c8\",\"name\":\"Brian Cantor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5726265e0532f231e46bbddd41009383?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Brian Cantor\"},\"description\":\"Brian Cantor is the editor-in-chief for Headline Planet. 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