![]() On September 1, 2022, it was announced that Melissa Villaseñor and Alex Moffat, both cast members since season 42, would be departing the show alongside first-year featured player Aristotle Athari. This was the final season for McKinnon and Aidy Bryant, who both had been cast members since 2012, Kyle Mooney who had been a cast member since 2013, and Davidson, who had been since 2014. On May 6, season 11 cast member Dan Vitale died from heart disease at the age of 66. Later in the season, on April 12, 2022, at the age of 67, season 6 cast member Gilbert Gottfried died after a long illness from a rare ventricular tachycardia disorder complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy. Two months later, on November 6, former featured player Peter Aykroyd died at the age of 65 from sepsis caused by an untreated abdominal hernia. #UPDATE V CAST BACKUP SCHEDULER UPDATE#This season saw the deaths of four former cast members on September 14, 2021, a month before the season began, former cast member and Weekend Update anchor Norm Macdonald died at the age of 61 after a nine-year battle with leukemia. ![]() In addition, longtime producer and head of talent relations Lindsay Shookus left the show after 20 years. He was succeeded by Liz Patrick, a longtime director of The Ellen DeGeneres Show. ![]() ĭon Roy King, who had directed the show since Season 32, retired after the ninth episode, hosted by Paul Rudd. #UPDATE V CAST BACKUP SCHEDULER MOVIE#Pete Davidson was absent from the thirteenth until the twentieth episode due to filming the movie The Home. Cecily Strong was absent from the first three episodes of 2022 due to her appearance in the Off-Broadway revival of the one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Kate McKinnon did not appear in the first seven episodes of the season, as she was filming Joe vs. Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang, who were hired as featured players in Season 45, were promoted to repertory status this season while Andrew Dismukes and Punkie Johnson remain as featured players. Three new featured players were added: comedic actor and filmmaker Aristotle Athari, impressionist and actor James Austin Johnson, and surrealist comedian Sarah Sherman. Prior to the start of the season, Beck Bennett and Lauren Holt had both left the show, though the rest of the cast from the previous season was retained. ![]()
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