Kenan Thompson is simply as puzzled as anybody about why Morgan Wallen rushed off the Saturday Night Live stage on the finish of the final episode, solely saying goodbye to host Mikey Madison.

"I don't know what goes by way of folks's minds after they resolve to do stuff like that. I don't know if he understood the task or not, or if he was actually feeling a sure type of means," Thompson tells Leisure Weekly whereas talking about his new GERD Is No Joke marketing campaign with Phathom Prescribed drugs to lift consciousness in regards to the situation and remedy choices similar to Voquezna.

The longest-tenured SNL solid member confirms he "positively noticed it" when the musical visitor prematurely departed. "You see someone earlier than you get an opportunity to say hello or say good job or something like that, they simply dipping," he remembers. "I assumed possibly he needed to go to the potty or one thing."

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Morgan's exit got here simply because the credit began to roll for viewers at dwelling, throughout a second when followers are used to seeing visitors and solid members interacting on stage.

"It's positively a spike within the norm," Thompson says. "We're so used to everyone simply turning round and high-fiving us, everyone's saying, 'Good job, good job, good job.' So when there's a departure from that, it's like, hmm, I ponder what that's about?"

Thompson says he "by no means met" Wallen throughout the newest episode or again when the nation star first carried out as musical visitor in December 2020, which got here after an earlier SNL debut was canceled as a result of Wallen breaking COVID-19 protocols.

"Looks like a sophisticated particular person, I assume," Thompson displays, noting that it's not the primary time a musical visitor has out of the blue left.

"Prince did the identical factor," he says, clarifying, "I'm not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, however we weren't stunned as a result of Prince was notoriously type of standoffish. It's simply how he was. So we simply thought like, 'Okay, now he's gone again into fantasyland.'"

He continues, "However Saturday I assume it was simply completely different as a result of it simply felt so abrupt. And it was already such a small grouping on the stage anyway. So it was identical to, oh wow, that was fairly seen. what I'm saying? It was a fairly seen factor."

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Later that evening, the musician posted a photograph of a personal jet with the caption "Get me to God's nation" on his Instagram Tales, which Thompson admits he didn't respect.

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"The 'God's nation' of all of it is unusual as a result of it's like, what are you making an attempt to say? You making an attempt to say that we’re not in God's nation? We're not all in God's nation? We're not all beneath God's umbrella? That's not essentially my favourite," Thompson says. "However no matter. Transferring on, we acquired a brand new present. We acquired Jack Black this week. We're right here speaking about GERD. We can be tremendous."

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