14 Actors Who Got Fired From "Saturday Night Live" (And Why)

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He told WTF with Marc Maron, "The determination was, like, the culture's changing, and I'm not a portion of it. This crap is getting hip, this crap is getting Blacker, this crap is getting fucking rap-ier..Like, SNL is inactive a beauteous achromatic show, but backmost past it was...When I got hired, I was the archetypal Black feline in, like, 8 years, and Living Color was conscionable hip...I wanted to beryllium successful an situation wherever I didn't person to truly construe the drama that I wanted to do. I had these instances wherever they wanted maine to bash definite things astatine SNL. I was like, 'No, I'm not doing it.'"

When Marc asked for examples, Chris said, "Whatever enslaved sketch or Ubangi tribesman oregon whatever, where, not that I thought that they were racist, I conscionable thought that, if you're the lone Black look that's going to beryllium seen for an hr and a half, it conscionable doesn't...there's gotta beryllium more, oregon different Black person. It feels racist. It's not racist, it conscionable feels erstwhile that's each you see."

He went connected to big the amusement 4 times betwixt 1996-2024.

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