Elliott was fired after the 2012 season finaleNEED TO KNOWAbby Elliott spoke about her Saturday Night Live tenure — and firing — in a new interviewElliott appeared on the sketch series from 2008 to 2012,

This all makes a ton of sense, too. SNL is notoriously hard to work on. There’s no shortage of stories about it. In fact, Chloe Fineman’s advice for new SNL cast members included her saying you feel like you’re “thrown into the fire.”

Elliott became the third generation in her family to appear on "Saturday Night Live" when she joined the cast in 2008.