Bowen Yang is here to stay at “Saturday Night Live.”

Ahead of Season 51 of the late-night sketch comedy show, several cast members confirmed their departure , including the show’s mainstays Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim.

Yang opened up to People about why he’s decided to stick around for another season and the words of wisdom he received from the show’s creator, Lorne Michaels.

He told the outlet, “I’ve always gone by the instinct of, do I have more to do? And I feel like I do.”

“Even Lorne and I talked about it, and Lorne was like, ‘You have more to do,’ and that means a lot, because I even confessed to him,” Yang explained. “I was like, ‘I feel the audience is maybe getting sick of me.’ And he was like, ‘That’s not true. There’s more for you to do. I need you.’”

Yang said that

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