After Heidi Gardner and Ego Nwodim exited Saturday Night Live ahead of the show’s 51st season , the pair has reunited to reminisce on their friendship and time on the NBC sketch comedy series.

Gardner recently stopped by Nwodim’s Thanks Dad podcast , where the former SNL castmembers recalled how they bonded instantly after Nwodim joined the show in 2018, a year after Gardner, and they shared a dressing room.

“To have to share such an intimate space together for hours on end on Saturdays and Thursdays and Fridays, whenever we were rehearsing, yeah, it made us close quick,” Nwodim said. “But it doesn’t have to work that way. It could also not make you close. It can make you not like each other. It can make you feel whatever mutually, ‘I’m sharing a space with this person.

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