“What are you making an attempt to say?”

Kenan Thompson has commented on Morgan Wallen‘s abrupt Saturday Evening Dwell (SNL) exit.

Final Saturday (March 29), nation singer Wallen appeared because the present’s musical visitor, and made headlines when he minimize his goodbyes quick – solely saying farewell to the visitor host, Oscar-winning actress Mikey Madison. Usually, the SNL solid rejoice with the visitor musician and host in the course of the credit roll.

Shortly after his exit, Wallen – who is predicated in Nashville, Tennessee – posted an Instagram Story of an image of his personal jet and a caption that learn “Get me to God’s nation”.

Now, longtime solid member Kenan Thompson has commented on Wallen’s sudden exit in a remark to Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t know what goes via individuals’s minds once they determine to do stuff like that,” he informed them. “I don’t know if he understood the task or not, or if he was actually feeling a sure form of means”. He joked that he “thought perhaps he needed to go to the potty or one thing.”

Thompson confirmed he “undoubtedly noticed” Wallen immediately depart, including: “It’s undoubtedly a spike within the norm. 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?”

Wallen has appeared in two episodes: final Saturday, and his first musical visitor efficiency in 2020 (which occurred following Wallen breaking COVID-19 protocols, resulting in his unique debut look to be cancelled). Thompson claims he has “by no means met” Wallen throughout both episode, however added that he “looks like an advanced particular person, I suppose.”

Thompson additionally famous that Wallen just isn’t the primary musical visitor to chop his look quick, including Prince additionally left his present early. “I’m not saying Morgan Wallen is Prince, however we weren’t stunned as a result of Prince was notoriously form of standoffish,” Thompson mentioned. “It’s simply how he was. So we simply thought like, ‘Okay, now he’s gone again into fantasyland.’”

He continued: “However Saturday I suppose 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. You understand what I’m saying? It was a fairly seen factor.”

Thompson then addressed Wallen’s post-exit Instagram Story: “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 aren’t 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 favorite. “However no matter. Shifting on, we bought a brand new present. We bought Jack Black this week. We’re right here speaking about GERD. We can be wonderful.”

Viewers have speculated Wallen’s exit was a snub in the direction of the solid. One social media user noted that Wallen was standing with Madison at an unusually nice distance from the solid, including: “Am I lacking one thing? The solid seems to be standing fairly far again from the host and musical visitor. The entire thing appears odd.”

“Darn, you may inform from the vibe ‘this was one of many dangerous ones.’”, another user wrote.

Meanwhile, a Variety report claimed that sources near Wallen keep the singer had fun on the present, including that his exit and Instagram submit weren’t meant as a slight in the direction of the solid.

Thanks, Mikey Madison and @MorganWallen! Goodnight! pic.twitter.com/FDlInhhHqb

— Saturday Evening Dwell – SNL (@nbcsnl) March 30, 2025

Since January, Wallen has been teasing and releasing tracks from his upcoming album ‘I’m The Drawback’, due for launch on Might 16. The identify seems to reference a few of his public scandals in recent times.

Final April, it was reported the singer had been charged with three counts of reckless endangerment and one depend of disorderly conduct after throwing a chair off a rooftop bar in Tennessee. In December, he pled responsible to 2 misdemeanours for reckless endangerment and not using a weapon and was ordered to spend every week in a DUI schooling heart and to serve a suspended sentence of two years of supervised probation.

In 2021, footage of him utilizing a racial slur surfaced on-line, inflicting him to be dropped by a variety of radio stations in addition to his report label, Huge Loud. Regardless of this, gross sales for his album ‘Harmful’ surged, and Wallen maintained the Quantity One spot on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for a record-breaking ten weeks. Wallen mentioned he was “embarrassed and sorry” by his actions, and requested followers to not defend him.

In different information, in October the musician donated $500,000 to the American Crimson Cross as a strategy to help the aid effort in Hurricane Helene’s wake.