Brooks Wheelan says he's leaving 'Saturday Night Live'
鈥�Saturday Night Live鈥� cast member Brooks Wheelan says he will not be returning to the show next season.聽
Wheelan on July 14 that he had been fired from the show.
鈥淗ad a blast and loved every second of it,鈥� he wrote. 鈥淚'm totally honored to be able to make this next joke... FIRED FROM NEW YORK IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!鈥澛�
NBC told the that the network doesn鈥檛 speak about casting shakeups.
Wheelan joined the show in the fall of 2013 with five other cast members, Kyle Mooney, Noel Wells, Mike O鈥橞rien, Beck Bennett, and John Milhiser. Cast member Sasheer Zamata was added during the season. According to the , which cast members will be coming back to 鈥淪NL鈥� for the upcoming fall season has not yet been decided.聽
According to the , cast member Nasim Pedrad, who has been on the show since 2009, said she may not be coming back to 鈥淪NL鈥� this fall, since she鈥檚 been cast on the Fox sitcom 鈥淢ulaney,鈥� which stars former 鈥淪NL鈥� writer John Mulaney. If the show was picked up by Fox, that would probably be what she would focus on, said the New York Daily News.聽
鈥淚 haven't heard any official word so far, but I love this show so much," Pedrad said, according to the New York Daily News. "I have an apartment in L.A. and, as far as I know, I'm in L.A. now.鈥�
Many longtime 鈥淪NL鈥� mainstays departed the show over the past couple of seasons, with Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg departing in 2012 and Jason Sudeikis and Fred Armisen leaving in 2013, among others. Head writer Seth Meyers left to host the NBC show 鈥淟ate Night,鈥� which he began hosting in February.
"SNL" debuted in 1975 with such cast members as Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Gilda Radner, and Dan Aykroyd.
