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The comedian titled his note announcing the news, “wait..did he quit or did he get fired?”<\/p>\n
\n\tDevon Walker\u00a0revealed that he is leaving Saturday Night Live <\/em>ahead of the show\u2019s Season 51 premiere. Taking to social media on Monday, he wrote that \u201cme and baby broke up\u201d and compared \u201cjobs in this industry\u201d to \u201ca bunch of little marriages.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn an Instagram post, the comedian continued his marital analogy, \u201cSome of em last for a long time if we\u2019re lucky, but most of them are fleeting. Permanent until they\u2019re not. That\u2019s the deal. You know what it is it when you sign up.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe mused, \u201cMe and the show did three years together, and sometimes it was really cool. Sometimes it was toxic as hell. But we did what we made the most of what it was, even amidst all of the dysfunction. We made a fucked up lil family.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tHe continued, \u201cMore than anything, I\u2019m just really happy I got to do it with Gary and Alex. Niggas really went from running a bar show to working together at 30 rock! It\u2019s a beautiful thing.\u201d Before wrapping his post, Walker concluded: \u201cAnyway, I\u2019m bout to go to Japan. When I get back I\u2019m tryna be in a prestige drama. Ideally something with Julianne Moore. Hope y\u2019all staying hydrated and getting some money today.\u201d <\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tWhile it\u2019s unclear if the actor is leaving the show by choice, he poked fun at the scenario and titled his note, \u201cwait..did he quit or did he get fired?\u201d In his Instagram announcement, he also included a screenshot of him texting \u201cI\u2019m out\u201d alongside an emoji with a party hat, behind-the-scenes pics on the set of SNL<\/em>, and an image of former president Joe Biden appearing to stumble when exiting a plane. <\/p>\n \n\tWalker\u2019s news of his departure arrives after SNL<\/em> creator Lorne Michaels\u2019 recent interview with Puck<\/em>, where Michaels hinted that fans can expect major changes leading up to the premiere of\u00a0Season 51 on Oct. 4. \u201cIt\u2019ll be announced in a week or so,\u201d said Michael, noting that this upcoming season he feels \u201cthe pressure to reinvent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The comedian titled his note announcing the news, “wait..did he quit or did he get fired?” Devon Walker\u00a0revealed that he is leaving Saturday Night Live ahead of the show\u2019s Season 51 premiere. Taking to social media on Monday, he wrote that \u201cme and baby broke up\u201d and compared \u201cjobs in this industry\u201d to \u201ca bunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[631,10845],"class_list":{"0":"post-17859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-baby","9":"tag-broke"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n