Where SNL’s Season 50 Shakeup Ranks Among the Show’s Biggest Overhauls

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SNL is in the middle of a major shake-up this week, with the departures of Devon Walker , Emil Wakim , Michael Longfellow , and Heidi Gardner , so far. I expect a few more exits before it’s all said and done, but those four alone have already rattled former SNL cast member Punkie Johnson (let go last year). I even saw memes announcing Chelsea Peretti and Dylan McDermott’s “exit,” though neither was ever actually on the show.

Comparatively, several more departures would have to happen before this season reaches the chaos of SNL ’s most turbulent years. Nothing, of course, compares to the end of the Dick Ebersol era and Lorne Michaels’ return, when the entire cast was replaced

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