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Two of the most recognizable “Saturday Night Live” repertory players will not be back for the upcoming forty second season.<\/p>\n

News broke Monday that Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah will not be part of the upcoming 42nd season. Killam arguably represented the lead male performer on the show, while Pharoah’s impressions has earned widespread praise — and plenty of Internet shares.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Uproxx, Killam confirmed that NBC opted not to pick up the final year of his seven-year contract.<\/p>\n

“You sign for seven years, so I had one more year,” explained Killam<\/a>. “I had sort of had it in my head I would make this upcoming year my last year, but then heard they weren\u2019t going to pick up my contract. I was never given a reason why, really. I can assume until the cows come home.<\/p>\n

“I do know I\u2019m directing this movie [‘Why We\u2019re Killing Gunther’] and I\u2019ll have two months of post-production that would have bled into the SNL production schedule, so we kind of communicated that. I honestly don\u2019t know what happened on the other side, but I do know we had expressed I have work on this film and in bonding this picture, that has to get cleared with SNL. And then [another offer] came up. I wasn\u2019t going to have to take any time off to do it, but it was a thing that they would have had to okay.”<\/p>\n

Details behind Pharoah’s departure were not available at press time. Like Killam, he would have been entering his seventh season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66914,"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":[1114,210,666,932],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\nTaran Killam, Jay Pharoah Won't Return For "Saturday Night Live" Season 42<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two of the most recognizable "Saturday Night Live" repertory players will not be back for the upcoming forty second season. 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