Catherine O’Hara Confesses Why She Left ‘Saturday Night Live’ Cast After One Week
deadline.comSchitt’s Creek actress Catherine O’Hara said she had to be loyal to the people that jump-started her career. Even though it meant she had to leave Saturday Night Live after just a week as a cast member.
O’Hara told People that she was cast the sixth season of SNL in the early 1980s, but quit after a week. “There’s been BS stories about I was supposedly scared by somebody,” said O’Hara, 69.
The rumors suggested head writer Michael O’Donoghue was the culprit. O’Hara claims that’s not true. Instead, she said she was loyal to the Canadian comedy sketch show SCTV, and that prompted her SNL exit. “Our producer would get a deal with a network, and we’d have a show for a season or two, and then that deal would go away.
There’d be a break, then we’d do the show again,” she said. During one such break, “I got asked to be on Saturday Night Live.
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