Maya Says Bye-a to Saturday Night Live

-- scribegrrrl from AfterEllen.com

She's in. She's out. She's coming back. No, she's not. The rumors have been floating around for a while now, but EW.com insists that Maya Rudolph has resigned from, rather than re-signed with, Saturday Night Live. There's no official statement yet, but some blogs cite personal and family reasons rather than money or screen time. SNL  returns this coming Saturday; this would have been Rudolph's eighth season.

The worst thing about this, other than the fact that we'll no longer get to see Maya's side-splitting impressions of Whitney Houston, Oprah Winfrey  or Donatella Versace — or see her "translate" for Fred Armisen's kooky Prince or play Nooni to his Nuni — is that her departure leaves only two female cast members on SNL, Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig. And although each of those women possesses more talent than any three of the male cast members put together, that's a ridiculously low percentage — even for a show that has a crappy track record of giving women their due.

 

I'll miss you, Maya, but I wish you a happy life and a movie career that's more like Molly Shannon's than Victoria Jackson's. Hold on tight to the Shrek stuff!

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[scribegrrrl]

Hey all -- please see our updated post over on AfterEllen -- Maya IS going to return to SNL after all! Stop messing with our heads, Maya!

http://www.afterellen.com/blog/scribegrrrl/maya-says-bye-a-to-snl