SNL Bids Adieu To Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, & Kyle Mooney In Touching Send-Off!

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Four stars of Saturday Night Live just enjoyed the final episode of their final season on the late-night show — and they got a touching send-off for the finisher! Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, and Kyle Mooney all left the show after the season 47 finale on Saturday night, receiving quite a send-off from fans and their fellow castmates along the way! Related: Could Kim And Pete Be Headed Down Under For A While?! Of course, all eyes were on Davidson, who has risen to prominence over the years and then shot to another level of stardom recently after pursuing a romantic relationship with reality TV star Kim Kardashian.

But he’s not the only one who’s been around SNL for a while! In fact, all three of the other dearly departed players have been there longer: Davidson for 8 seasons, Mooney for 9, Bryant for 10, and McKinnon for 211 episodes over 11 seasons — more than any other woman in SNL history.

In the show’s cold open, McKinnon revisited the popular “Close Encounter” sketch, playing Colleen Rafferty, a character boarding a space ship to leave Earth forever.

Clearly emotional during the sketch and fighting back tears while delivering her lines, McKinnon said at the end of the cold open: It was Davidson’s departure that caught a lot of attention, with a touching goodbye sent from his run on Weekend Update in the season’s final ep on Saturday.