- Many folks writing of who was not at the SNL40 bash are ignoring that someone could be ill, employed or not interested.
If I had more than 140 characters, I might have also added (1) unable to afford the trip and (2) not wild about trying to get in and out of New York between blizzards.
I'm hearing today of two cast members of whom people are saying, "How scandalous that this person wasn't there and featured" when the truth is that the person has not been well and either couldn't be there or didn't want to be there and look old and sick.
There were performers who were there and didn't get much (if any) attention: Victoria Jackson, Gilbert Gottfried, Rob Schneider, et al. If there's a snub, it's that the special placed more focus on current movie stars who once hosted than on cast members who were only cast members. But hell, they placed a ton more emphasis on cast members than on writers who were only writers.