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Morgan Wallen raised eyebrows after he abruptly walked off the stage at the end of last night's "Saturday Night Live" episode, in which he appeared as the musical guest.

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00:00Well, Morgan Wallen is good for SNL, and SNL is good for Morgan Wallen, because every time

00:05he goes on the show, there is always lots of conversation around it.

00:10He has a new album coming out, so the whole point of him going on the show is publicity,

00:14right?

00:15Well, he's getting a lot of it, and not just for his performances, which were great, typical

00:21Morgan Wallen performances, but it was what happened at the end of the show.

00:25If you missed this, the host, Mikey Madison, is saying goodnight and thank you, and as

00:32soon as the credits start rolling, Morgan walks off, but not like side stage, back stage

00:37or anything.

00:38He walks straight out, like I'm walking out the door where the audience walks out, and

00:43he's gone, and the rest of the cast are like normally the musical guest and the host.

00:48Forever.

00:49For 50 years.

00:50It's been the thing on SNL, at the end of the show, they all stand on the stage and

00:53hug, and as somebody who's a people watcher, I always find that to be the most interesting

00:57part of the show, how they're hugging, who they're going to, that whole thing.

01:01I cannot remember a time in the past where somebody just walked out like that, and interestingly,

01:07it's not Morgan Wallen's first time on the show, so if it was his first time, he might

01:11think maybe he doesn't want, he doesn't know.

01:14Back in December 2020, he was on, this is still COVID days, so everyone had their masks

01:18on, but he chummed it up with everybody.

01:21And did the thing, and then it potentially was made even worse by what he posted in social

01:26media.

01:27Yes.

01:28Yeah, yeah, it definitely looked really awkward, so we obviously reached out to-

01:32This is, Devin, we should say, after he left, he posted his private jet and said, get me

01:37to God's country.

01:38So that sounds to me like he wants out of New York.

01:40Yeah, New York apparently not God's country.

01:42Yeah, that added fuel to the fire, because obviously everyone on social media saw this

01:46and made it, and you know, people were speculating a bunch of things.

01:50A, he didn't want to be there, maybe he was upset at some of the political jokes they

01:54made or the jabs that were made at him during the show.

01:57So we reached out to people close to Morgan, Morgan essentially wasn't upset.

02:01We're being told that he basically did that exit through all the rehearsals during the

02:05week and all the camera blocking, so that was just how he thought he was supposed to

02:09exit the show, at least that's what we're being told from his people.

02:13And then as far as SNL-

02:14That doesn't add up.

02:15You, I know Charles doesn't believe that, but we reached out to SNL as well, and they're

02:18saying, hey, there was no bad blood here, basically this was just an awkward moment,

02:22and they would love to have him back on the show, and he was-

02:25Oh, I'm sure.

02:26But he was also well aware of all the jokes they were going to make, because they did

02:29all the rehearsals.

02:30It's not like they changed the jokes right before the show, it wasn't his first time

02:32seeing the show.

02:33Right.

02:34Yeah.

02:35So I agree.

02:36Maybe it's not, he maybe knew about all the jokes, and it's not that, but maybe it's just

02:40New York.

02:41Maybe he just didn't want to be there, but that doesn't happen.

02:44Yeah, and SNL usually has an after party too that people go to, so clearly he's choosing

02:48not to go to that either.

02:49He had better places to be.

02:50Kenan Thompson was asked about this on Good Day New York with Rosanna Scotto and Kurt

02:54Menefee this morning.

02:56Kenan, of course, the longest serving cast member in SNL history, he's seen a lot of

03:00these.

03:01Yes, he knows what normally happens.

03:02Yeah.

03:03I don't know if he understood the assignment, is what that looks like.

03:07Apparently, I guess he didn't know to stay or something like that, but whatever, doesn't

03:10matter, it was a great show.

03:13And honestly, I'm sure that's exactly how everyone in SNL feels, they're like, whatever

03:17people are talking about it.

03:19We had a good show.

03:21Mikey Madison was great, and that's all they care about, and the only thing that Morgan

03:27cares about is getting publicity, right?

03:30So this is a win-win, even though nobody's saying that.

03:34Right.

03:35And they're also saying there were some lip readers that were saying that Morgan was saying

03:39to Mikey that he was exhausted and had to get out of there, so regardless, I think he

03:43just wanted to get home.

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