Saturday Night time Reside has left some of us scratching their heads and it wasn’t because of a skit. Keenan Thompson additionally feels Morgan Wallen’s exit was abrupt.
In an unique interview with Leisure Weekly, Keenan Thompson was requested concerning the nation singer’s latest look on the sketch comedy present. Because the episode was wrapping up with the solid and crew saying goodbye from the primary stage, Morgan Wallen solely stated goodbye to host Mikey Madison. He then walked off the stage and proceeded to go away for his flight. Afterward that night, Wallen shared a message on his Instagram Story that learn, “Get me to God’s nation.”
At first, Thompson thought the musician simply wanted to alleviate himself. “You see someone earlier than you get an opportunity to say hello or say good job or something like that, they simply dipping,” he recollects. “I assumed perhaps he needed to go to the potty or one thing,” he stated. “We’re so used to everyone simply turning round and high-fiving us, everyone’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I ponder what that’s about?”
This isn’t the primary time the solid has been left hanging throughout the closing of the present. The Fats Albert star went on to level that Prince as soon as did the identical factor when he was the present’s musical visitor. “Prince did the identical factor,” he defined. “I’m not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, however we weren’t stunned as a result of Prince was notoriously form of standoffish. It’s simply how he was. So we simply thought like, ‘Okay, now he’s gone again into fantasyland.’” Nonetheless Thompson felt Wallen’s exit was peculiar. “However Saturday I suppose it was simply totally different as a result of it simply felt so abrupt.”
Whereas Morgan Wallen has but to make clear why he left with out saying goodbye, many are speculating that the “Final Night time” performer did that on goal as a result of both the collection or New York Metropolis is a bit too “woke” for his liking. Up to now, Wallen has made some questionable feedback that have been extensively thought of MAGA pleasant. Again in 2021, a video of him surfaced on-line utilizing a racial slur; he later formally apologized throughout an interview with Billboard. You may see him strolling off from Saturday Night time Reside under.
