How fired ‘Saturday Night Live!’ star Michael Longfellow discovered he was booted from sketch show



Brace for turbulence.

Fired “Saturday Night Live!” comedian Michael Longfellow, 31, discovered he was kicked off the long-running sketch show while he was at an airport in Utah.

The jokester revealed he was waiting to board a flight when his agent called and shared that he wouldn’t return for Season 51 of the iconic show, according to The Daily Beast.

Michael Longfellow’s contract for “Saturday Night Live” was not renewed. Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC

“SNL” creator Lorne Michaels was not on the call, the outlet reported.

The Post has reached out to Longfellow’s reps for comment.

Last month, Michaels told Puck News that a “significant” shake-up was hitting the show and several cast members were set to depart.

The fired funnyman was one of four on-air personalities axed in a late-night bloodbath, which included longtime cast member Heidi Gardner, Devon Walker and newcomer Emil Wakim.

Longfellow was fired from the sketch show after three seasons. Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images
Longfellow is one of four cast members who won’t be returning for Season 51. Will Heath/NBC via Getty Images

“Will not be returning for a 4th season at SNL,” Longfellow wrote in an Instagram post on Aug. 28. “Wish I was but, so it goes. It was the best three years of my life so far. I feel nothing but gratitude for the experience and everyone there.”

Longfellow was hired as a featured player in 2022 and promoted to the main cast last year.

“Lorne, you gave me the greatest job in the world and changed my life,” Longfellow added. “You even put my mom on TV. Thank you doesn’t begin to cover it, but thank  you.”

Former “SNL” staffers admitted that the show wasn’t always full of smiles backstage.

“Sometimes it was toxic as hell,” Walker confessed in an Aug. 25 Instagram post revealing that he wasn’t asked back to SNL after three years on the show.

Walker, who joined the show alongside Longfellow in 2022, added that he “made the most of what it was, even amidst all of the dysfunction.”

Longfellow discovered he had been fired from the show while he was at an airport. Holland Rainwater/NBC
The comedian was a featured player for two years before he was promoted to the main cast. Christopher Sadowski

Earlier this year, Gardner confessed the job had become a “little tough” during an appearance on Craig Ferguson’s podcast, “Joy.”

“I will say, the only thing that I’ve started to feel a little bit is just sketch fatigue, or idea fatigue,” Gardner shared. “At this point, after doing Groundlings and ‘SNL’ for so long, I’m like, ‘I’ve written a lot of sketches.’”

Ex-writer Celeste Yim shared that she “got yelled at by random famous men but some famous girls too” in an Instagram post announcing her departure last month.

The show added comedians Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Ben Marshall, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska to the cast of the upcoming season.

Season 51 of “Saturday Night Live” will premiere Oct. 4 on NBC.



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