Jay Pharoah Finally Addresses Saturday Night Live Exit on Instagram

Pharoah posted a sweet pic with cast members two days after news broke of his exit

By Lauren Piester Aug 10, 2016 10:55 PMTags

My fam for life ??????

A photo posted by Jay Pharoah (@jaypharoah) on

While we still don't know the circumstances surrounding his exit, Jay Pharoah's latest Instagram finally acknowledged the recent news that he won't be back on Saturday Night Live this season.

Pharoah posted a picture with fellow former cast member Taran Killam and current (as far as we know) cast member Vanessa Bayer and captioned it, "My fam for life," accompanied by several smiley faces.

Hopefully, the smiling faces mean that there are no hard feelings between Pharoah and SNL, especially after Killam spoke out and expressed some confusion for having been fired with one year left in his contract.

"I don't know the other side of it," he told Uproxx. "You sign for seven years, so I had one more year. I sort of had it in my head I would make this upcoming year my last year, but then heard they weren't going to pick up my contract. I was never given a reason why, really."

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No reason has been given yet for Pharoah's exit, but he would have also had another year on a seven year contract.

According to the Uproxx interview, Killam suggested that maybe he was being let go because he had too many other projects going on, and Pharoah does have three upcoming projects on IMDb.

Pharoah joined SNL in 2010, and was known for spot-on impressions of Jay-Z, Kanye West, presidential hopeful Ben Carson, and of course, President Obama.

Season 42 of SNL premieres later this year.

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