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September 2026. Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline were promoted to repertory status for season 52, two years after joining the cast together in 2024. Their promotion brought season 52's repertory cast to 11 people, according to the site's roster, the smallest repertory lineup of the era so far. The promotion was announced the same day Saidah Belo-Osagie and Grace Reiter joined the cast as new featured players.

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September 2026. Saidah Belo-Osagie and Grace Reiter joined Saturday Night Live as featured players in September 2026, completing the season 52 ensemble. Their arrival means 14 of the 43 people in the roster's current era, everyone whose stint falls within seasons 41 through 52, are featured players who have not yet reached repertory status. The announcement came alongside confirmation that Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline, who joined in 2024, had been promoted to repertory for the new season.

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July 2026. Chloe Fineman departed Saturday Night Live in July 2026 after seven seasons, the same tenure Ego Nwodim had logged when she left the show the year before, according to the site's roster. Fineman had joined in 2019 alongside Bowen Yang, who left the show about seven months earlier, also with seven seasons to his name, and both were promoted to repertory status together in 2021. Fineman's departure came between seasons, following the same offseason timing that closed out several other cast members' runs across the era.

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December 2025. Bowen Yang departed Saturday Night Live in December 2025, midway through season 51, an unusually timed exit compared with the show's typical spring and late-summer cast turnover. Yang finished with seven seasons, according to the site's roster, longer than the runs of 134 of the 174 people ever on the roster. Yang had joined in 2019 alongside Chloe Fineman and was promoted to repertory status in 2021, becoming one of the show's most prominent cast members before his mid-season departure.

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September 2025. Saturday Night Live added five new featured players for season 51 in September 2025: Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Kam Patterson, Veronika Slowikowska and Ben Marshall. It was the largest incoming class of the era, according to the site's roster, which shows no other year between 2015 and 2026 brought more than four new performers at once, a mark previously set by the 2022 arrivals of Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker. The hires followed a wave of departures earlier that season.

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August 2025. Michael Longfellow was let go from Saturday Night Live in August 2025 after three seasons, matching the tenure of classmate Devon Walker, who left the show the same month. Longfellow had joined in September 2022 alongside Walker, Marcello Hernandez and Molly Kearney, and was promoted to repertory status two years later together with Hernandez and Walker. His departure came the same month as Heidi Gardner's, part of the wave of turnover that also saw Ego Nwodim leave before season 51 began.

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August 2025. Heidi Gardner was fired from Saturday Night Live in August 2025, according to The Daily Beast, after eight seasons on the show, a season count shared by exactly 11 of the 174 people ever credited on the roster. Gardner had joined in 2017 and reached repertory status two years later, becoming one of the cast's most recognizable character performers. Her exit came the same month as Michael Longfellow's and Devon Walker's, part of a wave of turnover that also saw Ego Nwodim leave before season 51 began.

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August 2025. Emil Wakim left Saturday Night Live in August 2025 after a single season, having joined as a featured player the year before alongside Ashley Padilla and Jane Wickline. His run is one of 29 tenures in the site's roster whose only credited role was featured player, with no repertory promotion, writing credit or other distinction ever added; Jon Rudnitsky, whose own single season opened the era a decade earlier in 2015, is also part of that group.

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August 2025. Devon Walker departed Saturday Night Live in August 2025 after three seasons, having joined in 2022 alongside Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney and Michael Longfellow. According to the site's roster, Walker's three seasons tie Longfellow's; among that incoming foursome only Kearney, with two seasons, had a shorter run, while Hernandez remains on the show. Walker's exit came in the same late-summer stretch that saw several other cast members leave ahead of the show's fifty-first season.

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16 February 2025. Saturday Night Live celebrated its fiftieth anniversary with a three-hour primetime special, SNL50: The Anniversary Special, which aired live from Studio 8H on 16 February 2025 on NBC and Peacock. The broadcast drew together decades of alumni alongside the current cast, which the site's roster shows numbered 22 active performers that season, more than any season since 2022. The special aired partway through season 50, the same season in which the show would also lose five cast members before its finish.

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Season 50, 2024–25. Ego Nwodim departed Saturday Night Live during season 50, the same season that saw Heidi Gardner, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker also leave the cast. Nwodim finished with seven seasons, according to the site's roster, one of two people in that four-person departure cluster with seven or more seasons; only Gardner, with eight, had more. Nwodim had joined in 2018 and been promoted to repertory status in 2020, becoming one of the cast's longer-serving performers before her run ended.

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September 2024. Ashley Padilla, Emil Wakim and Jane Wickline all joined Saturday Night Live as featured players in September 2024, arriving ahead of the show's fiftieth-season celebrations. Wakim's run would end within a single season, while Padilla and Wickline each remained on the show and were promoted to repertory status two years later, in September 2026, according to the site's roster. The trio joined the same week the show announced that Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker were being promoted to repertory.

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September 2024. Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker were promoted to repertory status for season 50, two years after joining the cast together in 2022. Their promotion brought season 50's repertory cast to 17 people, according to the site's roster. Hernandez remained a repertory player through the following seasons, while Longfellow and Walker would each depart within a year, finishing with three total seasons apiece.

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September 2024. Chloe Troast's departure from Saturday Night Live was announced in September 2024, ending her run after a single season as a featured player following her hire in October 2023. Her exit came the same week that three cast members from the 2022 arriving class, Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker, were promoted to repertory status. Of the four people hired in that 2022 class, the site's roster shows only Molly Kearney, like Troast, left the show without ever reaching repertory.

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2 August 2024. Molly Kearney announced their departure from Saturday Night Live on 2 August 2024, writing on Instagram that they were reflecting on "the amazing 2 seasons" they had on the show. Kearney had joined in September 2022 alongside Marcello Hernandez, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker, who by that point had each completed two full seasons, six combined, according to the site's roster, making Kearney's run the shortest of that incoming foursome.

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August 2024. Punkie Johnson departed Saturday Night Live in August 2024 after four seasons on the show, having joined as a featured player in 2020. Her tenure length matches Sasheer Zamata's four seasons, logged before Zamata left the show back in 2017, according to the site's roster. Johnson's exit came in the same week as fellow cast member Molly Kearney's departure, as the show prepared to bring in a new round of featured players ahead of season 50 and the program's fiftieth-anniversary year.

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4 October 2023. Chloe Troast was announced as a new Saturday Night Live cast member on 4 October 2023, the same day NBC confirmed the delayed season 49 would premiere on 14 October with Pete Davidson hosting. Troast was the only new featured player added that fall, the third time in seasons 41 through 52 that the site's roster shows exactly one new performer joining in a given year, after Jon Rudnitsky in 2015 and Ego Nwodim in 2018. Her run on the show would last a single season.

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Season 49, 2023–24. James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman were promoted to repertory status for season 49, two years after joining the cast together in 2021. Their promotion brought season 49's repertory cast to 15 people, according to the site's roster. The promotion came as the delayed season 49 premiere finally arrived, with the show's full cast returning after the year's labor strikes.

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May 2023. The Writers Guild of America strike that began in May 2023, later joined by a SAG-AFTRA actors' strike that summer, halted Saturday Night Live production and pushed the season 49 premiere back to October. The site's roster shows just 17 active cast members carried into that stretch, down from 25 the year before, reflecting the wave of departures across 2022. When the season finally began, Chloe Troast joined as the only new featured player, and the rest of the cast returned intact.

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December 2022. Cecily Strong departed Saturday Night Live in December 2022, several weeks after the bulk of that year's cast turnover. She finished with eleven seasons on the show, according to the site's roster, a count that includes her partial first season in 2012, matching Kate McKinnon for the longest tenure of anyone who left the show during seasons 41 through 52. Strong had become a Weekend Update anchor and one of the cast's most recognizable performers, closing out a year in which nine cast members departed in total.

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September 2022. Alex Moffat and Melissa Villasenor were confirmed as departing Saturday Night Live in September 2022, with Aristotle Athari also leaving the show around the same time ahead of season 48. The three departures combined for 13 seasons of tenure according to the site's roster, ranging from Moffat's and Villasenor's six years each, dating back to their joint arrival in 2016, to Athari's single season after joining the year before. All three had been part of incoming classes announced alongside other performers who remained on the show.

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September 2022. Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker all joined Saturday Night Live as featured players in September 2022, replacing several departing cast members ahead of season 48. Their four-person class was the largest single incoming group of the era: the site's roster shows no other year between 2015 and 2026 brought as many as four new performers at once until 2025. Hernandez remained with the show for years afterward, while Kearney, Longfellow and Walker each had shorter runs of two to three seasons.

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September 2022. Chris Redd departed Saturday Night Live in September 2022, shortly after the show's new featured players arrived for season 48. His exit was the eighth of nine cast departures the site's roster records for that calendar year, more than any other year across seasons 41 through 52. Redd had joined in 2017 and was promoted to repertory status in 2019, finishing with five total seasons on the show before Cecily Strong became the ninth and final departure of that turbulent year in December.

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May 2022. Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson all departed Saturday Night Live around the season 47 finale in May 2022, in one of the largest single cast shake-ups of the era. Together the four combined for 38 seasons on the show, according to the site's roster, and each had logged more seasons than 147 of the 174 people ever credited on the roster. McKinnon finished with the longest tenure of the group at eleven seasons, followed by Bryant's ten, Mooney's nine and Davidson's eight.

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September 2021. Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang were promoted to repertory status for season 47, two years after joining the cast together in 2019. Their promotion brought season 47's repertory cast to 21 people, according to the site's roster, the largest repertory lineup of the era to that point. Fineman and Yang went on to become two of the longer-serving cast members of the period, with each logging seven total seasons before leaving the show years later.

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September 2021. Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman all joined Saturday Night Live as featured players in September 2021, arriving as Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt departed. Johnson and Sherman would each go on to log six seasons on the show, according to the site's roster, six times the length of Athari's single-season run before he left in 2022. Both Johnson and Sherman were later promoted to repertory status, becoming two of the more prominent performers to emerge from that incoming class.

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September 2021. Beck Bennett departed Saturday Night Live in September 2021 after eight seasons, a tenure length shared by only 27 of the 174 people ever on the roster with eight or more seasons. Lauren Holt left the same month after a single season, having joined the previous year alongside Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson. The two departures came as the show also added three new featured players, Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman, and promoted Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang to repertory status.

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September 2020. Ego Nwodim was promoted from featured player to repertory status for season 46, two years after joining the cast in 2018, as the show confirmed the entire season 45 cast would return following the pandemic-shortened year. Her promotion followed the same two-year timeline already taken by five other performers earlier in the era, according to the site's roster: Mikey Day, Alex Moffat and Melissa Villasenor in 2018, and Heidi Gardner and Chris Redd in 2019. Nwodim went on to spend five more seasons on the show as a repertory player before her eventual departure in 2025.

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September 2020. Punkie Johnson, a stand-up comedian, Lauren Holt, an alum of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and staff writer Andrew Dismukes all joined Saturday Night Live as featured players in September 2020, as the show returned to Studio 8H after its at-home episodes. Their three-person class matched the size of four other incoming groups across seasons 41 through 52, according to the site's roster. Holt's run lasted a single season, while Johnson and Dismukes each remained with the show considerably longer.

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April 2020. Saturday Night Live suspended production at Studio 8H in March 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, then returned in April with a series of episodes filmed remotely from cast and crew members' homes, billed as Saturday Night Live at Home. Twenty of the people credited in the site's roster were active cast members that season, and the entire group returned for season 46 that fall without a single departure, an unusual outcome for a show that typically loses several cast members every year.