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Kenan Thompson, the longest tenured cast member in the history of Saturday Night Live, has made a public statement about Morgan Wallen’s abrupt and bizarre exit from the SNL stage on Saturday Night. Thompson not only called out Wallen for ditching the SNL stage during the outro but also his subsequent Instagram posting “get me to God’s country.”
On Saturday, March 29, country music star Morgan Wallen was the musical guest alongside host Mikey Madison. During the outro, in which the host thanks the cast and crew, Wallen abruptly darted off stage without speaking to anyone behind him.
After the episode, Wallen then took to Instagram to share a photo of his private jet flight with the caption “Get me to God’s country.” As for what Wallen meant by “God’s country,” he’s been arrested multiple times and charged with multiple misdemeanors in Tennessee — and also went viral for using the N-word while outside his home in Nashville — so perhaps that’s where he was referring to.
Ask about Wallen’s conduct in the days following his stint as musical guest, Kenan Thompson joked that he at first thought Wallen had to go to the bathroom and suggested that he might not have “understood the assignment.”
“I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way… I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something. It’s definitely a spike in the norm. 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 told Entertainment Weekly.
“The ‘God’s country’ of it all is 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.”
It’s certainly no coincidence that Thompson is the SNL cast member speaking publicly about Wallen’s publicity stunt, as he’s been a cast member on the iconic sketch comedy series since 2003, making him the long-tenured cast member in the series’ history.
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