On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Tom Wolper<[email protected]> wrote: > > I got this through a tweet by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TV critic Rob Owen: > > http://www.sling.com/blog/4993/Michaela-Watkins-and-Casey-Wilson-Dropped-from-"Saturday-Night-Live"; > > Michaela Watkins and Casey Wilson have been dropped from the cast of > "Saturday Night Live." The two have been replaced by Jenny Slate and > Nasim Pedrad. > > Watkins's firing has been seen by some as the bigger of the two -- > Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello tweeted, "Confirmed: SNL has > fired Michaela Watkins. DUMBEST. MOVE. EVER. (Casey Wilson has also > allegedly been dropped)." To be fair to Wilson, who was in 30 more > sketches last season than Watkins, she never really had the > opportunity to carve out any trademark characters or impressions for > herself. But that clip of her reading her online criticism was pretty > funny.
And, burying the lead, near the end of the original report Sean McCarthy adds: "Announcer Don Pardo, however, has officially retired after being an SNL institution since the beginning." http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2009/09/addition-through-subtraction-snl-fires-michaela-watkins-and-casey-wilson.html I guess this was already public, but I had not heard it... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
