‘SNL’ Officially Goes Dark Following Writers Strike
deadline.comPete Davidson won’t have the chance to host Saturday Night Live, just yet. The network has officially parked the May 6 episode of the series.
It will air repeats until further notice, which will likely mean that the venerable NBC show has aired its season finale. Davidson, whose Peacock comedy series Bupkis starts this week, was set for his SNL return after leaving last year.
Speaking on The Tonight Show, Davidson joked that he was taking it personally. “It sucks because it just feeds my weird story I have in my head, like, of course that would happen to me.” One SNL cast member told Deadline: “We have to think about our crew too.
I absolutely support the writers, and I want the writers to get what they deserve and need, but I don’t want our crew to be out of work.
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