Kenan Thompson on Mprgan Wallen’s walkout
Kenan Thompson had some ideas on Morgan Wallen’s surprising exit from Saturday Evening Dwell—and he’s simply as puzzled as everybody else.
“I thought maybe he had to go to the potty or something,” Thompson quipped to Leisure Weekly after Wallen made a noticeably swift departure from the SNL stage on Saturday night time.
In contrast to the standard post-show routine—the place the forged and company trade hugs, high-fives, and fast congratulations—Wallen gave a short hug to host Mikey Madison earlier than strolling straight previous the cameras and off the stage.
Not lengthy after, the nation singer posted an Instagram Story that includes a non-public jet and the cryptic message: “Get me to God’s country.”
Thompson admitted the second stood out, saying, “I don’t know what goes through people’s minds when they decide to do stuff like that. I don’t know if he understood the assignment or not, or if he was really feeling a certain kind of way.”
The SNL veteran mentioned he “definitely saw” Wallen depart.
“You see somebody before you get a chance to say hi or say good job or anything like that, they just dipping,” he recalled.
“It’s definitely a spike in the norm,” he added.
“We’re so used to everybody just turning around and high-fiving us, everybody’s saying, ‘Good job, good job, good job.’ So when there’s a departure from that, it’s like, hmm, I wonder what that’s about?”
Thompson additionally revealed that he has by no means truly met Wallen—neither throughout this weekend’s episode nor when the singer first carried out on SNL in December 2020.
“Seems like a complicated individual, I guess,” Thompson mused earlier than making an attention-grabbing comparability.
“Prince did the same thing. I’m not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, but we weren’t surprised because Prince was notoriously kind of standoffish. It’s just how he was. So we just thought like, ‘Okay, now he’s gone back into fantasyland.’”
“But Saturday I guess it was just different because it just felt so abrupt,” Thompson continued.
“And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was just like, oh wow, that was pretty visible. You know what I’m saying? It was a pretty visible thing.”
