Jay Pharoah, Taran Killam Exiting `Saturday Night Live`

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Jay Pharoah, Taran Killam
Exiting ‘Saturday Night Live’
SNL cast members Jay Pharoah (left) and Taran Killam (right).
(AP Photos/Evan Agostini/Invision and Andy Kropa/Invision)
LOS ANGELES (AP)
— Longtime “Saturday
Night Live” cast member
Taran Killam says he “was
never given a reason why”
he was being let go after
six seasons on the NBC
program.
Killam and fellow
cast member Jay Pharoah
won’t be back when “SNL”
returns this fall for its
42nd season, the network
said Monday.
Killam told Uproxx in
an interview published
Monday that he was planning on making the upcoming season of “SNL”
his final one before being
told that his contract
wasn’t being picked up.
“I was never given a
reason why, really. I can
assume until the cows
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Biles nearly flipped to the rafters
in her routine from the movie Rio
Gymnast Simone Biles wowed the crowd with vault performance.
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Raisman is the reigning
Olympic
champion on
life,” he told Uproxx.
come home,” he said.
Killam performed floor while Biles is the
Killam speculated
that the production sched- several celebrity impres- reigning world champion,
ule of a film he’s directing sions on the show, includ- and they showed why.
and starring in, “Why ing Brad Pitt and Donald Raisman stuck nearly evWe’re Killing Gunther,” Trump — although the ery landing while Biles
may have played a part Trump role went to “SNL” nearly flipped to the
because two months of announcer and former star rafters in her routine that
post-production work on Darrell Hammond during uses music from the movie
Rio.
the movie would have co- the past season.
The U.S. finished with
Pharoah was also on
incided with “SNL’s” production schedule. What- the program for six sea- a team total of 8.209
ever the reason for his de- sons and had the coveted points. It was the largest
parture, Killam said he has role of impersonating margin of victory since the
“no gripes” about his time President Barack Obama.
as part of the comedy in- He was also known for his
send-ups of Kanye West,
stitution.
“I set out to be on Jay Z, Shaquille O’Neal and
‘SNL’ and I got to do that others.
“SNL” is famous for
and I did very well. And I
love and adore and will its revolving-door cast,
forever have close ties and with Tina Fey, Jimmy
tight bonds with the bril- Fallon and Eddie Murphy
liant, smartest, funniest among its successful
people I’ve ever met in my alumni.
Mother:
Young
Black
Raleigh
Man was
Shot
Leaving
House
Party
“Perfect 10” scoring system was replaced by the
current open-ended scoring method was implemented in 2006. They effortlessly surpassed the
previous record of 5.066
points, set by the Fierce
Five in London.
Russia finished in
second place, followed by
China in third. This was
Russia’s second consecutive silver win, while China
missed the podium in London but won team gold at
their home Olympics in
Beijing.
After the score was
announced, the USA
women huddled together
and cheered in harmony,
“We are the Final Five!”
Rio will be the last
Olympics to see fivemember gymnastics
teams. In Tokyo, each
team will have only four
members. Thus, this will
be the last U.S. team to
win Olympic gold with a
five-member team.
Chad Cameron Copley, 39, is led out of a courtroom at the Wake County Judicial Center in Raleigh,
N.C., Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Copley, who apparently
called police to complain about “hoodlums” near his
house, was charged with murder after he shot and killed
a black man outside, authorities said. (Chuck Liddy/
The News & Observer via AP)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The mother of a young Black man who authorities
say was killed by a White man firing a shotgun from his garage says her son
was known as “Safety 101” because he always urged people to buckle their
seat belts.
Simone Butler-Thomas spoke by phone Tuesday with The Associated Press
about the killing of her 20-year-old son, Kouren-Rodney Bernard Thomas.
Police have charged Chad Cameron Copley with murder. They released
911 calls from Copley’s house in which a man says he fired at a group of armed
Black “hoodlums” outside.
Butler-Thomas says her son was leaving a house party down the street
when he was fired on. She said her son was only weeks away from moving into
his first apartment after working a series of restaurant jobs.