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31 Mar 2025


NextImg:Kenan Thompson Confused By Morgan Wallen's Sudden 'SNL' Exit
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Kenan Thompson admits he’s still confused by country singer Morgan Wallen’s sudden departure from the “Saturday Night Live” stage during the show’s closing moments this weekend.

Wallen was standing next to host Mikey Madison during the goodbyes when he said something to her before walking off the stage straight toward the camera.

A short time later, Wallen made a post to Instagram that showed a private jet with the caption, “Get me to God’s country.”

Thank you, Mikey Madison and @MorganWallen! Goodnight! pic.twitter.com/FDlInhhHqb

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) March 30, 2025

Thompson, the longest-tenured cast member in the show’s 50-year history, told Entertainment Weekly he has no clue why Wallen made the abrupt exit.

“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that,” Thompson said. “I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way.”

Thompson said he “definitely saw” Wallen’s premature departure and said he thought the singer “had to go to the potty or something.”

The exit was “definitely a spike in the norm,” Thompson said. “We’re so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what that’s about?”

Thompson said he never met Wallen during Saturday’s show or his previous appearance back in December 2020, but said, “Seems like a complicated individual, I guess.”

The “SNL” cast member also said he thought Wallen’s social media post referencing a return to “God’s country” was “strange” because “it’s like, what are you trying to say? You trying to say that we are not in God’s country? We’re not all in God’s country? We’re not all under God’s umbrella? That’s not necessarily my favorite.”

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Thompson isn’t the only “SNL” staffer with thoughts about Wallen’s exit.

“SNL” writer Josh Patten referenced Wallen’s “get me to God’s country” caption with a photo of a Krispy Kreme truck, while cast member Chloe Fineman liked an Instagram post by Deuxmoi that referenced the singer’s alleged meltdowns while on set this past week.