{"id":16990,"date":"2025-12-20T22:21:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bowen-yang-to-depart-snl-mid-season-last-episode-with-buddy-ariana-grande\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:21:24","slug":"bowen-yang-to-depart-snl-mid-season-last-episode-with-buddy-ariana-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bowen-yang-to-depart-snl-mid-season-last-episode-with-buddy-ariana-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"Bowen Yang to depart SNL mid-season, last episode with buddy Ariana Grande"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of&nbsp;projects, will depart &ldquo;Saturday Night Live&rdquo; mid-season after Saturday&#8217;s episode hosted by his &ldquo;Wicked&rdquo; co-star&nbsp;Ariana Grande. He joined the show as a writer in 2018, became a featured player the following season and was promoted to the main cast two seasons after&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/5658371-bowen-yang-departing-snl\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &mdash; Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of&nbsp;projects, will depart &ldquo;Saturday Night Live&rdquo; mid-season after Saturday&#8217;s episode hosted by his &ldquo;Wicked&rdquo; co-star&nbsp;Ariana Grande. He joined the show as a writer in 2018, became a featured player the following season and was promoted to the main cast two seasons after&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}