Chloe Fineman Exits Saturday Night Live After 7 Seasons

Chloe Fineman Exiting Saturday Night Live After 7 Seasons

Live from New York, it’s Chloe Fineman closing the curtain.

The comedian announced that she's leaving Saturday Night Live after "seven wonderful seasons" on the late-night variety show.

"I have decided it’s time for my next chapter," she wrote on Instagram July 16. "It’s cliche to say this but working at SNL has been the greatest privilege of my life. I still can’t really believe I got to be a part of it. I fell in love with the place the second I walked through the door."

The 37-year-old continued by expressing her gratitude towards the show's creator and longtime showrunner Lorne Michaels for the opportunity, as well as everyone else who worked behind the scenes to make it happen.

"Lorne (if you’re reading this on your burner account) I want you to know that I am forever in your debt," she said. "Every day I was lucky enough to be surrounded by the best people in the business, and I was constantly amazed watching them work.”

"Sewing a Jojo Siwa costume in 10 hours,” she continued. "Writing a cold open at 2pm on a Saturday. Finishing the VFX of a video minutes before dress (I don’t know if 'finishing VFX’ is the right technical term but you get the idea)."

"I’m definitely not the first to make this observation," Fineman added, "but it really is funny looking back at it all now, because at the show you get so invested in everything you work on. You sob uncontrollably when your sketch isn’t picked. You storm into a producers office telling them they just made the biggest mistake of their lives.”

As she noted, "You call everyone you know to complain. And then you look back a few years later and it was a sketch called 'lipstick for thicc dogs.'"

The Big Mouth actress went on to explain the rollercoaster emotions that often came along with her experience of working on the series.

"That’s just the show,” Fineman shared. "You respect it so much that you give it absolutely everything you have even when it’s incredibly stupid. So you’re ecstatic when it works out and the most devastated you’ve ever been when it doesn’t. And in the end it doesn’t matter all that much but it did at the moment."

"It’s really hard to leave SNL but it does feel like the right time,” she explained. "I’m going to miss it a lot. But the people who work there are my family and that place is my home, and I know I’ll never be too far away."

Marcello Hernandez also shared his well wishes, commenting, "Congrats Carlotaaaa."

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Marcello Hernandez also shared his well wishes, commenting, "Congrats Carlotaaaa."

Keep reading for more stars who have made shocking exits from TV shows over the years...