TENSE SNL SEASON FINALE

The SNL season finale ended with a farewell sketch for 7 year veteran, and one of the greatest cast members of all time, Kristen Wiig.  It was a great tribute that was more heartfelt than anything i've ever seen on SNL.  But something happened during that final sketch that has gone largely unreported.

Jason Sudeikis was a complete mess during the Wiig sendoff.  Sure, it definitely appeared to be emotional for many of the cast members, but the way Sudeikis was acting was rather strange.

Sudeikis, like Wiig (and Andy Samberg), is a 7 year veteran of Saturday Night Live.  A little known fact about SNL is that when you are brought on, you are signed to a 7 year contract that Lorne Michaels can rip up anytime should you be "let go" or if it "isn't working out."  That's kind of got a MLB service time vibe to it, but the point is that Sudeikis and Samberg's contracts are up.

The future of Sudeikis and Samberg on SNL has not been publicly reported, with the latest tidbits coming out that decisions on the cast would be made in July.  Samberg's departure became evident in the episode before last when it marked the 100th digital short.  It has a finale type of vibe to it, and in the season finale he did another digital short which featured Chris Parnell.  The very first digital short was "Lazy Sunday" with Chris Parnell, and the digital short series is apparently coming to an end with another Samberg/Parnell rap (this time about Sister Act 2: The Musical).  Samberg gets the last words, and it definitely had the vibe of "peace i'm out."

But back to the most tense moment I think i've ever seen on SNL.  The video is linked below.  Thanks Hulu!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/363338/saturday-night-live-shes-a-rainbow

The cast definitely is emotional during their personal goodbyes to Wiig, but notice the emotions of Sudeikis after he says goodbye to Wiig.  He goes straight to the back, and appears to be either really emotional or really frustrated.  Either way, he was a complete mess.

It's hard to pencil in exactly where his emotions were coming from though.  I want to be clear that I don't know, but speculating on this makes me fear for the worst.  Could he have been angry?  Maybe that the show is giving Wiig a huge personal sendoff, but not him?  As some of the old cast members come out on stage, notice you lose sight of Sudeikis. In the end, you see him in the back left but he is clearly separated from the rest of the crew.

Hey, i'm just throwing stuff out there.  Maybe when he gets extra emotional that's just the way he looks.  He might just look like an angry, jealous person when he's super emotional.  I'm not calling him an angry, jealous person.  It was just an odd visual, and came across extra tense.

I've speculated over the last few months that Sudeikis has been disconnected from the show.  I've noticed a blatant lack of preparation as far as knowing your lines.  There have been plenty of sketches where he has just been flat out bad.  It's pretty obvious that he doesn't want to be there.

I feel like Andy Samberg is finished, but might show up from time to time like plenty of old cast members do.  For Sudeikis, I hope that he works out a short term deal with SNL over the summer for him to work a half-season.  They did the same with Amy Poehler in 2008, during the election when they needed her to stay aboard and play Hillary Clinton.  Sudeikis is the man that plays Mitt Romney, and it wouldn't surprise me if he comes back for just a couple months until after the election.  It also wouldn't surprise me one bit if that was the end of Sudeikis.

No matter what he was doing, thinking, or feeling on Saturday night, watching what transpired was the most tension i've ever seen in my 20 year career of watching Saturday Night Live.  Whether he was sad, frustrated, angry, jealous, or just flat out emotional, it was clearly odd behavior and I think it's telling on the future of Jason Sudeikis on SNL.  There's not one.