NEW YORK — “Saturday Night Live” cast member Emil Wakim is leaving the show after just one season, calling his departure a “gut punch.”

Wakim used a post on Instagram to announce he had been let go by the show ahead of its 51st season.

“It was a gut punch of a call to get, but I’m so grateful for my time there,” Wakim writes in the post. “I was at Six Flags celebrating my friend’s 36th birthday and went on a really emotional walk through Bugs Bunny Park and stared out across Daffy Duck Lake thinking about life.”

Wakim writes that he considers himself lucky to have been a part of “SNL,” even it was for a short time.

“Every time I scanned into the building, I would think how insane it is to get to work there,” Wakim writes. ”It was the most terrifying, thrilling and rewarding experienc

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