Damon Wayans was a cast member during season 11 of SNL, when the show had an overhaul on existing stars participating.

The comedian looks back on "purposely" jeopardizing his position due to frustrations with creative direction in a docuseries on the sketch comedy.

Michaels said he canned him midseason because “it had to be done,” EW noted. Before his unauthorized improv, Wayans said in the doc he was warned by “SNL” great Eddie Murphy that as a Black man he would be pigeonholed into certain characters, so he’d better write his own, Deadline reported.

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Damon Wayans got honest about his short time on Saturday Night Live and why he ended up getting fired. In the fourth episode of Peacock's docuseries SNL 50: Beyond Saturday Night, Damon sat down to reminisce and laugh about his short time on the show.

Wayans basically “broke the ultimate [ SNL] golden rule, which is no surprises,” according to Live From New York author James Andrew Miller. Former writer A. Whitney Brown added, “You cannot go rogue. You cannot try to steal a sketch.”

The sketch comedy show is celebrating 50 seasons with two documentaries and an upcoming prime-time special that reflect on its standing as an American institution.

Peacock’s new docuseries has the massive task of defining a show that has defined culture for decades, as it peers into cast auditions, the writers room, the iconic cowbell sketch and the 1985-1986 season that almost canceled the show.

Damon Wayans is opening up about his short stint on Saturday Night Live and the sketch that got him fired from the NBC late-night sketch show.

What “SNL50” adds to the overstuffed canon of 30 Rock lore is a direct result of all this eager participation. “Five Minutes” is structured around performer after performer watching and reacting to their own audition tapes,

Damon Wayans is opening up on the circumstances surrounding his firing from “Saturday Night Live” in 1986, admitting he “purposely” got himself canned.

Comedian Damon Wayans appears as a sort of ghost from Saturday Night Live’s past in the new Peacock docuseries SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night to explain why he “went rogue” and “wanted [Lorne Michaels] to fire me” after his brief stint during the show’s notoriously troubled 1985-1986 season of the show.