[Music] [Applause] [Music] while talking to Saturday Night Live veterans David Spade and Dana Carvey on their fly on-the-wall podcast comedian Punky Johnson discussed her decision to leave SNL ahead of its 50th season Johnson revealed she began doubting her role on the prolific sketch comedy show before season 49 I talked to my team I was like look I don't really know if I belong at this job so maybe I should step away Johnson said but I told them super super late like right after I found out I got to go back and it was like well Punky you need a plan you can't just quit your job Johnson decided to remain as a cast member for season 49 and said for the first couple of weeks things wor tremendous I think I got like three or four sketches on the first half of the Season she added and usually I only get maybe two or three on the entire season so I'm like oh man I'm killing it like this is my season however after the departure of her writer Ben Silva Johnson once again questioned her place on SNL if I was telling him something he knew how to put it in SNL format for me if I try to put it in SNL format that's the hard part Johnson said I didn't really feel like I fit like I didn't feel like that was my zone that show is for a different type of person Johnson added I came from standup so I just thought everybody else came from standup I started having conversations with people and everybody was like oh yeah we went to school for this unlike yall went to school to be here Johnson first joined SNL in 2020 as a featured player on season 46 her other credits include a black lady sketch show Adam ruins everything corporate and space force