Chloe Troast is making light of her Saturday Night Live exit a month after news broke.
The former SNL featured player did not return to NBC‘s late-night sketch show, and while accepting an award, she addressed her exit.
“About a month ago, I found out I wouldn’t be returning to my dream job on Saturday Night Live,” Troast said while accepting the Club Cosmo Award. “Very Gen Z of me to get fired.”
She continued, “There are not a lot of people in this world that can relate to you when you lose a job like Saturday Night Live, besides maybe Adam Sandler, Jenny Slate, Michaela Watkins, Joan Cusack, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Robert Downey Jr, Billy Crystal… but no way you know their names.”
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Troast said that although she was in good company, she still “felt broken,” and her ex-dressing room roommate Molly Kearney, who also exited the show, helped her cope with the difficult moment.
The comedian said Kearney called her and to get her out of bed “and help me see the forest through the trees,” adding, “Literally, they helped me get out of the city and I spent a month in nature. Touched grass. Gained some perspective. SNL was my dream, and now I have a lot of time to dream new dreams.”
Deadline broke the news in September that Troast would not return for SNL‘s 50th season. Punkie Johnson also exited after four seasons, and Kearney after two.
“Unfortunately I was not asked back to SNL this season,” Troast wrote on IG after Deadline’s story was published. “I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there, it truly felt like home. But it wasn’t in the cards.”
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