‘The Bear’ star Abby Elliott opens up about getting fired from ‘SNL’: ‘Not how I wanted to end’

She couldn’t bear it. 

“The Bear” star Abby Elliott was on “Saturday Night Live” before joining the hit Hulu drama, and in a recent interview with The Independent, she opened up about getting fired from the iconic sketch comedy series. 

“Every week was a new week, and your happiness would depend on whether you got something on air or not,” Elliott told the outlet. 

Elliott, who was on “SNL” between 2008 and 2012, is the daughter of actor/comedian Chris Elliott, who also was on “SNL” from 1994 to 1995. 

She continued, “And if three weeks went by without a sketch, you’d think, ‘Uh-oh, am I going to be fired?’… There was always that looming threat of getting fired. That was the worst that could happen. And then, I kind of did.”

During her time on the show, Elliott did various celeb impersonations, including Rachel Maddow and Angelina Jolie. When she asked “SNL” boss Lorne Michaels if she could leave, she recalled, “I went back to him with my tail between my legs, asking to stay…but after that season, Lorne said, ‘No, I’m going to cut you loose.'”

She left at the same time as former “SNL” legend Andy Samberg. 

The Golden Globe-nominated actress moved on to “The Bear,” which is currently streaming Season 4 on Hulu.

The show follows  follows Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), as he takes over his late brother’s (Jon Bernthal) Chicago restaurant and wrangles the kitchen staff into giving it a fine-dining makeover, including Syd (Ayo Edebiri), his volatile cousin Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), Tina (Liza Colon-Zayas) pastry chef Marcus (Lionel Boyce), and handyman Neil Fak (Matty Matheson). 

Elliott plays Carmy’s sister, Natalie. During a Season 4 episode, she got into a fight with guest star Brie Larson (and it was implied that the two hooked up in the past).

“As much as I enjoyed being on that show, sketch comedy wasn’t going to be it for me. It’s not why I started, and it’s not how I wanted to end,” Elliott concluded about her time on “SNL.” 

She added, “Also, I had learnt the lessons I was going to learn…and so I left and, you know, the water was warm.”