Actress/comedienne Maya Rudolph has dealt NBC a crippling blow by announcing that she will not be returning for another season of Saturday Night Live.

Rudolph, daughter of an African American singer and Jewish American composer, has long been one of SNL's most popular performers, and with Rudolph goes the show's entire ethnic presence (she is survived only by generic white girls Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig)

Her exit will undoubtedly leave SNL scrambling to hire a more racially diverse cast find someone else who can singlehandedly impersonate Condoleezza Rice, Oprah Winfrey, Donatella Versace and Jennifer Lopez.

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