Punkie Johnson on the real reason why she quit ‘SNL’: “That show is for a different type of person”

By February of last season, I was like, nope, I’m done. The season before that, I questioned it, 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,’ But I told them super, super late, like right after I found out I got to go back. And it was like ‘Well Punkie, you need a plan. You can’t just quit your job.’

I think I got like three or four sketches on the first half [of this past season]. 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] I never grew up in sketch,

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