‘SNL’ Season Finale Lets McKinnon, Bryant, Mooney, Davidson Say Good-Bye
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV EditorSurvive, from New York: “Saturday Night Live” will continue on without four prominent departing cast members, but most of them got a chance to offer up a few final laughs before the show completed its 47th season.Word that Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Kyle Mooney and Pete Davidson planned to leave the venerable late-night series after Saturday’s broadcast leaked out late in the week.
That made appearances by the actors all the more emotional during NBC’s broadcast of SNL’s season finale. McKinnon made one more run as Ms.
Rafferty, the down-and-out woman who is abducted (and probed) by aliens, but lives to tell the tale. The show used its signature “cold open” to reprise the character once more, with Bryant, Mikey Day and Cecily Strong all playing a part along with host Natasha Lyonne.
McKinnon and Bryant were at the center of the last sketch of the evening, an ode to greying pigtails, with Mooney playing a prominent role.
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