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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Bowen Yang Finally Reveals Why He Did Half a Season of SNL Before Leaving · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Bowen Yang left SNL in December in pretty unorthodox fashion,
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Speaker 2: midway through the eighth season. He's now revealing wide as
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Speaker 2: a favor to a guy who he felt he owed
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Speaker 2: many favors to, legendary SNL creator and show runner Lord Michael, specifically,
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Speaker 2: who actually called Bowen to ask him to stay on
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Speaker 2: a little longer than he planned.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Bowen actually told Variety that he already had told
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Speaker 1: the SNL team he was leaving the season, and then
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Speaker 1: last summer he was at the US Open watching tennis
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Speaker 1: when his phone rang and it was Lauren, and.
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Speaker 2: Lauren basically said, there's a lot of new talent. He
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Speaker 2: wanted Bowen around to set an example for them, and
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Speaker 2: Bowen says it was the first time in his life
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Speaker 2: somebody who made so many things possible for his career
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Speaker 2: called in a favor, which.
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Speaker 1: Is why saying yes was an absolute no brainer. He
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Speaker 1: agreed to the half season and also managed to get
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Speaker 1: some friends hired as writers to pay it forward a
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Speaker 1: little bit.
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Speaker 2: How great is that you can stream Bowen and Matt
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Speaker 2: Rodgers last Culturistas wherever you get your podcasts that's direct
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Speaker 2: from Hollywood,