Everything makes so much sense now! On Monday, we learned that Jay Pharoah and Taran Killam were leaving SNL, each with a year left on their seven year contracts. Killam claimed he was not given a reason for not being asked back, but assumed it had something to do with his upcoming projects that would interfere with the show's rigorous schedule. Today, Showtime announced that it had cast both Pharoah and Killam as the lead roles in their own pilots, set to debut in 2017, which presumably would have begun filming before season 42 of the NBC sketch show would have ended. Pharoah will be playing the lead in White Famous, which is a half-hour comedy about a young black comedian "whose star is rising,...
- 8/11/2016
- E! Online
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