Kate McKinnon Shares Tearful Send-Off to ‘SNL’ and Lorne Michaels: ‘I Hate Goodbyes and I Love Those People’
thewrap.comVulture’s “Good One” podcast.“I definitely was not sure when the right time to go was,” she said when asked why she stayed with the show for as long as she did. “Leaving was in the back of my mind for a while, because it’s just a grueling schedule.
I mean, I could do it for the rest of my life, happily, if the schedule were not so grueling and if I was not naturally a person who liked to wake up at 8 a.m.
and go to bed at midnight.”McKinnon performed on “SNL” for 11 seasons with nine straight Emmy nominations and two wins. She is one of the five longest-tenured cast members of the sketch comedy show.“Part of it was the pandemic and how strange production had become, and wanting to wait until it was normal again,” she continued. “And mostly I hate change and I hate goodbyes and I love those people.
Sorry, I’m going to start crying…”Earlier this summer in an appearance on “Live With Kelly and Ryan,” the comedian detailed how she noticed the toll the schedule was taking on her body, saying, “I can’t keep on doing this.”“I was having trouble staying up until 1 a.m.,” she said. “And I was like ‘OK.
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