Veteran cast members Heidi Gardner and Michael Longfellow are leaving “Saturday Night Live” ahead of its 51st season.

Gardner, who had been the longest-tenured woman in the cast, was on the late-night comedy show for 8 seasons. Longfellow, who reportedly screen tested for the Weekend Update segment earlier this year , was in the cast for 3 seasons.

Gardner is known for characters such as Angel (Every Boxer’s Girlfriend from Every Movie About Boxing Ever) .

Longfellow was a frequent visitor to Weekend Update to offer his takes on current events .

“Excited for the future and things to come,” he captioned an Instagram post . “If you take anything away from my time on SNL let it be that smoking you makes you skinny and popular, Jesus was Chinese, and if a tortoise ever gives yo

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