{"id":50819,"date":"2022-09-19T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T00:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=50819"},"modified":"2022-09-22T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T17:55:46","slug":"chris-redd-leaving-saturday-night-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/19\/chris-redd-leaving-saturday-night-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Redd Leaving SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50820\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50820\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chriss-redd-snl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50820\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chriss-redd-snl.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Redd Saturday Night Live\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chriss-redd-snl.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/chriss-redd-snl-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50820\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via NBC Universal.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Chris Redd is leaving <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. The five year veteran of the long-running sketch show will not be returning to the cast when the series kicks of its forty-eighth season on October 1.<\/p>\n<p>Redd&#8217;s departure raises the number of cast members to leave in advance of the upcoming season to eight. Previously, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2022\/05\/20\/snl-shakeup-mckinnon-bryant-mooney-and-davidson-leaving-at-end-of-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were announced as leaving<\/a> just as SNL&#8217;s last season was wrapping up last May. Last month, Alex Moffat, Melissa Villase\u00f1or and Aristotle Athari were added to the list of departing cast members.<\/p>\n<p>Coming as it does so close to the start of <em>SNL<\/em>&#8216;s new season, Redd&#8217;s departure comes as somewhat of a surprise. Still, he does have a couple of projects in the works including developing the feature film <strong>Cyber Monday<\/strong> for Universal and an upcoming stand-up special for HBO Max.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The five-year cast veteran is departing just before the show returns for its 48th season next month.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2022\/09\/19\/chris-redd-leaving-saturday-night-live\/\" title=\"Chris Redd Leaving SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10285],"tags":[11461,2787],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv-news","8":"tag-chris-redd","9":"tag-saturday-night-live"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50819"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=50819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}