Chloe Troast spent one season on ‘Saturday Night Live’ before announcing her departure ahead of Season 50 last month. She recently reflected on her time at the show and her firing while accepting a Club Cosmo Award from Cosmopolitan and UTA Next Gen at ZCON.
“About a month ago, I found out I wouldn’t be returning to my dream job on ‘Saturday Night Live,’” Troast said on stage. “Very Gen Z of me to get fired.”
“There are not a lot of people in this world that can relate to you when you lose a job like ‘Saturday Night Live,’ besides maybe Adam Sandler, Jenny Slate, Michaela Watkins, John Cusack, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Robert Downey Jr., Billy Crystal — but no way you know their names,” she joked. “Even so, I felt broken.”
The comedian credited Molly Kearney, a co-star who joined the show the previous year and also left ahead of the upcoming season, with helping manage her firing.
“Who better than my ex-dressing-room-roommate to call me, get me out of bed, and help me see the forest through the trees,” she said. “Literally, they helped me get out of the city and I spent a month in nature. Touched grass. Gained some perspective. SNL was my dream, and now I have a lot of time to dream new dreams.”
Troast announced her departure from ‘Saturday Night Live’ on social media, following a report by Deadline Hollywood. “I wish I was going back to be with all the amazing friends I made there, it truly felt like home. But it wasn’t in the cards,” her Instagram post read.
The actress recently took a small role in Hallie Meyers-Shyer’s ‘Goodrich’ with Michael Keaton. She will also appear in the romantic comedy ‘Sweethearts’ in November.
