Former Saturday Night Live<\/em> cast member Devon Walker<\/a> is calling out his alma mater over the show\u2019s lack of diversity\u2014at least as represented by the half-dozen cast members who partook in a recent promotional appearance with Vanity Fair<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u201clol i\u00a0forgot everyone on the show is white now 😭,\u201d Walker commented on a Vanity Fair<\/em> Instagram post<\/a> that shared an excerpt of a game<\/a> played by Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, James Austin Johnson, Ashley Padilla, Jane Wickline, and Sarah Sherman. \u201cthe 90s is back,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n When an SNL<\/em> fan account shared a screenshot of Walker\u2019s comment on X, noting \u201csnl used to have devon walker,\u201d the former cast member replied, \u201cno disrespect to the homies, i got a lot of love for them\u2026 but there\u2019s a institutional trend at play<\/a> that is very under-discussed imo.\u201d<\/p>\n The SNL<\/em> Season 51 cast also includes Kenan Thompson, Michael Che, and Kam Patterson, as well as Marcello Hern\u00e1ndez\u2014none of whom were involved in the VF<\/em> shoot. In total screen time this season, Hern\u00e1ndez and Thompson respectively rank seventh and eighth out of 17 players. Che, who rarely appears outside of \u201cWeekend Update\u201d (which he co-anchors with Colin Jost), ranks No. 11, while Patterson comes in last place in screen time.<\/p>\n Walker announced his SNL<\/em> ouster before the start of the show\u2019s current season; days later, Emil Wakim<\/a>, who is of Lebanese descent, did the same. Ego Nwodim<\/a> later announced that she also would not be returning for Season 51.<\/p>\n As LateNighter reported in the wake of Nwodim\u2019s exit, three Black women made it to the in-studio audition phase<\/a> for Season 51, yet none made the cut. As a result, SNL<\/em> has been operating without a Black female cast member ever since, a blindspot for which the show has caught consistent flack. <\/p>\n Former cast member Leslie Jones said during an October podcast appearance<\/a> that she sends along suggestions for cast additions \u201call the time\u201d because \u201cI don\u2019t think they get to see as many Black women as they need to see.\u2019<\/p>\n Surveying the talent pool that typically serves as the SNL<\/em> farm system, \u201cThey have Black women sketch groups\u2014a lot of them\u2014but they don\u2019t get the love that the other sketch groups get, \u201cJones explained, \u201cYou have to go and search for them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Bowen Yang\u2019s mid-season departure further reduced the SNL<\/em>\u2018s cast diversity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n![\"Devon](\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/devon-walker-snl-1024x692.png.webp)
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