Cobble Hillbilly Jenny Slate will not be part of the new season of Saturday Night Live the New York Times reports. Slate, famously dropped the F-bomb on the show’s premiere last season and never quite recovered:
NY Times: Jenny Slate, who finished her freshman year at “Saturday Night Live” in the spring, will not have her contract picked up for a second season, the source said. Ms. Slate, a veteran of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, had a bit of a trial by fire at “S.N.L.” when she accidentally used an obscene word during the first episode of the 2009 season. But after settling in at the show, Ms. Slate went on to portray quirky characters like the television pitchwoman Tina-Tina Chaneuse. She also appears in the HBO comedy “Bored to Death,” and recently had a hit viral video with “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” a stop-motion animated short that she wrote with its director, Dean Fleischer-Camp, and for which she provided the voice of the title character.
NY Magazine notes that this might give Slate more time for projects like Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
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