Heidi Gardner lands first role after sudden ‘SNL’ exit…
The present must go on.
Heidi Gardner has landed her first role since her sudden and shocking exit from “Saturday Night Live” in August, and the project is being produced by none other than her outdated boss, Lorne Michaels.
The “Shrinking” star, 42, is about to affix other A-list comics in Broadway’s “All Out: Comedy About Ambition,” a new manufacturing kicking off a 12-week restricted run at the Nederlander Theatre on Dec. 12.
Heidi Gardner has landed her first post-‘SNL’ role. Getty Images
Lorne Michaels is producing “All Out: Comedy About Ambition.” NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Images
Described as a companion piece to quick story author Simon Rich’s last season hit “All In: Comedy About Love,” the play will feature Gardner and 14 other comedians rotating in teams of 4 to read “hilarious stories” about “ego, envy, greed, and basically just New Yorkers in general,” per the present’s official release.
Directed by Tony Award-winning director Alex Timbers with unique music carried out by the pop group Lawrence, “All Out: Comedy About Ambition” is being produced by Michaels, 80, and the Broadway manufacturing company Seaview.
While Gardner will seem on the stage for 4 weeks from Jan. 20 to Feb. 15 alongside Jason Mantzoukas (“The Good Place”), Craig Robinson (“The Office”) and fellow “SNL” alum Sarah Silverman, other stars collaborating embody Jon Stewart, Ray Romano, Jim Gaffigan and more.
The Post has reached out to Gardner’s rep for remark.
Gardner can be on Broadway for 4 weeks. FilmMagic
Jason Mantzoukas also will star in the present. FilmMagic
The “Hustle” star, who first joined “SNL” as a featured participant in 2017, abruptly exited the NBC comedy collection in August, just weeks before Season 51 kicked off on Oct. 4.
Although Gardner has still not addressed her departure, an insider claimed that her contract was not renewed.
“It’s time for a new cast,” the source shared.
Craig Robinson is a part of the solid. Getty Images
Former “SNL” castmate Sarah Silverman also can be in “All Out.” WireImage
Bowen Yang, Gardner’s former “SNL” colleague who returned for the new season, praised his former castmate as “one of the greats” who “will go down in history” during his “Las Culturistas” podcast last month.
Other featured gamers to fall sufferer to Michaels’ shocking pre-season shakeup, which he teased as a solid change during an interview over the summer season, included Devon Walker, Emil Wakim and Michael Longfellow.
Walker, 34, was the first to announce his exit after three seasons on the present. Wakim, 27, and Longfellow, 31, adopted swimsuit shortly after.
Gardner at the Television Academy in North Hollywood, California, on June 2, 2025 Todd Williamson/NBC by way of Getty Images
Michaels attends the 2024 Paley Honors at Cipriani forty second Street in New York City on June 13, 2024. Getty Images
“It was the most terrifying, thrilling and rewarding experience of my life, and I will miss it dearly and all the brilliant people that work there that made it feel like a home,” Wakim announced in August.
“Will not be returning for a 4th season at SNL,” Longfellow later added. “Wish I was but, so it goes. It was the best three years of my life so far.”
Five new featured gamers, meanwhile, joined “SNL” for Season 51, including Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane, Please Don’t Destroy’s Ben Marshall, Kam Patterson and Veronika Slowikowska.
Gardner during Season 43 of “Saturday Night Live.” NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Images
Gardner and Bowen Yang during “Saturday Night Live” on April 15, 2023. Will Heath/NBC by way of Getty Images
But as for who among the new solid will grow to be this season’s breakout star, that is still to be revealed.
“Every week there are only so many minutes of airtime … there can be almost a ‘Game of Thrones’ aspect to how the week unfolds, and who is left standing by Saturday night,” biographer Susan Morrison, who wrote “Lorne: The Man Who invented Saturday Night Live,” told The Post last month.
“That’s probably what gives the show its adrenaline,” she added. “Lorne would say this is what makes it work.”
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