Bowen Yang received teary-eyed throughout the last sketch on Saturday’s episode of “Saturday Night Live,” which was his last.
The 5-time Primetime Emmy nominee – who confirmed via his social media earlier on Saturday that he was retiring from “SNL” after the telecast – performed a Delta Sky Club worker working his final shift at the airport on Christmas Eve, armed with a damaged eggnog machine.
Various solid members got here up to him posing as vacation vacationers, and it quickly turned clear that the skit was a car to ship Yang off.
“This is my last shift. It’s sad. I’m gonna miss everything about this place. The way it smells,” he instructed fellow solid members, together with Andrew Dismukes.
“The celebrities who come through. Just last week, Josh O’Connor came through,” Yang added jokingly, in a nod to final week’s “SNL” host.
He quickly referred to as his aged spouse at residence, who was performed by this weekend’s host, Ariana Grande, and was later joined by each her and the evening’s musical visitor Cher for a rendition of The Eagles’ “Please Come Home for Christmas.”
At one level Yang broke down whereas expressing gratitude for his time on the long-running NBC sketch present.
“I just feel so lucky that I ever got to work here. And I just wanted to enjoy it for a little bit longer. Especially the people. I’ve loved every single person who works here,” he mentioned tearfully.
Yang’s midseason departure from the present follows a number of different solid members who revealed they have been leaving forward of the begin of Season 51, which included Devon Walker, Ego Nwodim, Heidi Gardner, Emil Wakim and others.
“SNL” will resume with a brand new episode on January 17, 2026, with host Finn Wolfhard of “Stranger Things” and musical visitor A$AP Rocky.