Kenan Thompson had some ideas on Morgan Wallen’s sudden exit from Saturday Night time Stay—and he’s simply as puzzled as everybody else.
“I assumed possibly he needed to go to the potty or one thing,” Thompson quipped to Leisure Weekly after Wallen made a noticeably swift departure from the SNL stage on Saturday night time.
Not like the standard post-show routine—the place the forged and company alternate hugs, high-fives, and fast congratulations—Wallen gave a short hug to host Mikey Madison earlier than strolling straight previous the cameras and off the stage.
Not lengthy after, the nation singer posted an Instagram Story that includes a personal jet and the cryptic message: “Get me to God’s nation.”
Thompson admitted the second stood out, saying, “I don’t know what goes by folks’s minds after they resolve to do stuff like that. I don’t know if he understood the project or not, or if he was actually feeling a sure sort of approach.”
The SNL veteran mentioned he “positively noticed” Wallen go away.
“You see any person earlier than you get an opportunity to say hello or say good job or something like that, they simply dipping,” he recalled.
“It’s positively a spike within the norm,” he added.
“We’re so used to everyone simply turning round and high-fiving us, everyone’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I ponder what that’s about?”
Thompson additionally revealed that he has by no means really met Wallen—neither throughout this weekend’s episode nor when the singer first carried out on SNL in December 2020.
“Looks like an advanced particular person, I suppose,” Thompson mused earlier than making an fascinating comparability.
“Prince did the identical factor. I’m not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, however we weren’t stunned as a result of Prince was notoriously sort of standoffish. It’s simply how he was. So we simply thought like, ‘Okay, now he’s gone again into fantasyland.’”
“However Saturday I suppose it was simply totally different as a result of it simply felt so abrupt,” Thompson continued.
“And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was identical to, oh wow, that was fairly seen. what I’m saying? It was a reasonably seen factor.”
