If you managed to get through Bowen Yang’s final episode of Saturday Night Live (which is streaming with a Peacock subscription) without feeling a little emotional, congratulations on your emotional fortitude — you think you’re better than me?! For the rest of us, the goodbye hit hard, and then the cast reactions started rolling in, which was basically the point of no return. Chloe Fineman, Aidy Bryant, and more pay tribute after the Wicked star's final SNL episode, and I’m not crying, you are!
Yang’s mid-season departure really does feel like the end of a special era at SNL. Over the past few seasons, he turned into one of the show’s most reliable scene-stealers — whether he was playing a chaotic pop culture gremlin, grounding a sketch with deadpan confidence, or making “Weekend Update” feel even more unhinged in the best way. So of course his past and present castmates didn’t let him slip out quietly. One of the sweetest tributes came from Chloe Fineman, who shared a backstage Instagram photo of herself hugging the “Iceberg that sank the Titanic” sketch performer. In the caption (which you can read for yourself below), she tagged the Jentry Chau vs. The Underworld voice star and said she was “so endlessly proud” of him, calling it a “BRAVO,” while also noting the pics were from their first episode together.
