Ahead of Season 51 of “ Saturday Night Live ,” another cast member has announced his departure.

Emil Wakim revealed on Wednesday via Instagram that he will not be returning to the NBC sketch comedy show after the summer break, writing, “it was a gut punch of a call to get but I’m so grateful for my time there.”

Adding a note of levity, he went on to say the he got the news while celebrating a friend’s birthday at a Six Flags amusement park and “went on a really emotional walk through Bugs Bunny park and stared out across Daffy Duck lake thinking about life.”

“Every time I scanned into the (‘SNL’) building I would think how insane it is to get to work there,” Wakim added, alongside a carousel of photos documenting his time at Studio 8H at 30 Rock in New York City. “It was the most te

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