{"id":66324,"date":"2022-09-05T04:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melissa-villasenor-leaving-snl-in-season-48\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T04:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T04:36:55","slug":"melissa-villasenor-leaving-snl-in-season-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melissa-villasenor-leaving-snl-in-season-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Villasenor Leaving &#8216;SNL&#8217; in Season 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articlebody\">\n<p>Melissa Villase\u00f1or is weighing in on her <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> departure. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline-floating-gallery\">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span id=\"more-1234858166\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As we reported Thursday, Villase\u00f1or is among three <em>SNL<\/em> cast members not returning for Season 48, joining Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari.  Their exits follow the previously announced departures of <em>SNL<\/em> vets Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my sweetie fans, my Melissa monsters, I know &#8216;thas sah&#8217; me leaving the show, but!  I felt this was my soul telling me it&#8217;s time to spread my wings,\u201d Villase\u00f1or wrote on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melissavcomedy\/status\/1566279329432027141\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a> over the weekend.  \u201cLots more for me to dig in and discover.  What an honor to experience my kid dream\u2026 forever grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As for what she&#8217;ll do next, \u201cI am gonna be proud for a while, travel, enjoy life, do more volunteer work, spend time with my family,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/melissavcomedy\/status\/1566282925364064257\" target=\"_blank\">she said<\/a>.  \u201cFrom there art blooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rumors of Villase\u00f1or&#8217;s departure first started circulating in August after the comedian shared a steady stream of <em>SNL<\/em> memories on her Instagram Story \u2014 a series of behind-the-scenes photos and videos that culminated in a title card that read \u201cThe End.\u201d  Soon after she announced a fall standup tour, with dates spanning October through November.<\/p>\n<p>Villasenor first joined <em>SNL<\/em> in 2016, at the start of Season 42. She became known for her myriad impressions \u2014 including, but not limited to: Owen Wilson, Gwen Stefani, Lady Gaga, Sarah Silverman, John Mulaney and Rep.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 and she has been a frequent contributor to Weekend Update.<\/p>\n<p><em>SNL<\/em>&#8216;s Season 47 ensemble members of 21 (!) cast, including repertory players Bryant, Michael Che, Davidson, Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, Heidi Gardner, Colin Jost, McKinnon, Moffat, Mooney, Ego Nwodim, Chris Redd, Cecily Strong , Kenan Thompson, Villase\u00f1or and Bowen Yang, as well as featured players Athari, Andrew Dismukes, Punkie Johnson, James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman.  That doesn&#8217;t even include the Please Don&#8217;t Destroy trio, consisting of Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy, who contributed digital shorts.<\/p>\n<p>A premiere date for Season 48 has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=228932107161302\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Villase\u00f1or is weighing in on her Saturday Night Live departure. As we reported Thursday, Villase\u00f1or is among three SNL cast members not returning for Season 48, joining Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari. Their exits follow the previously announced departures of SNL vets Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon and Kyle Mooney. \u201cOh my sweetie &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melissa-villasenor-leaving-snl-in-season-48\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Melissa Villasenor Leaving &#8216;SNL&#8217; in Season 48<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63064,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/snl-season-48-melissa-villasenor-and-alex-moffat-leaving\/","url_meta":{"origin":66324,"position":0},"title":"SNL Season 48: Melissa Villase\u00f1or and Alex Moffat Leaving","date":"September 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"the Saturday Night Live cast exodus continues. 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Three more members of the NBC show's ensemble \u2014 regulars Alex Moffat and Melissa Villase\u00f1or and featured player Aristotle Athari \u2014 are leaving ahead of season 48, which begins in the fall. Their departures follow those of Aidy Bryant, Pete\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":63359,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/melissa-villasenor-alex-moffat-and-aristotle-athari-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":66324,"position":3},"title":"Melissa Villase\u00f1or, Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari out","date":"September 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"season of change. \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d stars Melissa Villase\u00f1or, Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari won't be returning to the late-night show this fall, according to multiple outlets. Both Villase\u00f1or and Moffat joined the NBC show in 2016 before getting promoted to the main cast two years later. 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