Saturday Night Live had two cast members announce their departure this week, as Molly Kearney joined Punkie Johnson in revealing they will not be returning for the show’s upcoming 50th season.
Cast members are typically signed to seven-year contracts that can be broken by SNL, but not the performer, meaning that Kearney and Johnson were almost certainly let go by executive producer Lorne Michaels ahead of what is expected to be a super-sized 50th season. There...