One other longtime Saturday Evening Reside solid member is saying goodbye: Cecily Robust is leaving the NBC sketch present, with this Saturday’s Christmas episode being her closing one.
The present introduced the exit forward of Saturday’s present by way of Twitter and Instagram, posting pictures and movies of Robust together with the caption: “Tonight we ship off the most effective to ever do it. We’ll miss you, Cecily!” A supply tells TVLine that it was at all times the plan for Robust to return for under the primary half of the present Season 48. (She missed a number of episodes earlier this season whereas performing The Seek for Indicators of Clever Life within the Universe in Los Angeles.)
Robust joined SNL as a featured participant in 2012, graduating to turn into a full-fledged solid member the next 12 months and co-hosting Weekend Replace together with Seth Meyers. She earned a pair of Emmy nominations for greatest supporting actress in a comedy in 2020 and 2021. Robust leaves SNL because the longest-tenured feminine solid member within the present’s historical past, edging out Kate McKinnon. She’s subsequent set to return for Season 2 of the Apple TV+ musical comedy Schmigadoon!, airing subsequent 12 months.
Her departure is simply the newest for SNL, with McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Chris Redd, Melissa Villaseñor, Kyle Mooney, Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari already exiting the present this 12 months. Robust’s farewell episode, hosted by Elvis star Austin Butler and that includes musical visitor Lizzo, airs tonight at 11:30 pm ET on NBC.
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