Bowen Yang is exiting Studio 8H. After a wildly successful tenure on the show, Yang, 35, will exit the cast of "Saturday Night Live" in the midst of Season 51, the breakout star confirmed.

Bowen Yang, coming off a huge year or two of projects, will depart “SNL” mid-season after Saturday's episode hosted by his “Wicked” buddy Ariana Grande.

At several turns of this week’s show, particularly in a closing sketch about a retiring Delta Sky Club employee that served as Yang’s emotional goodbye, it was clear that Grande understood the assignm...