Today, everyone’s talking about SNL’s new female cast member. She was hired to shake things up a bit, and that she did, by dropping the mother of all curse words live on the show’s 35th season premiere. But Jenny Slate’s oops moment was already eclipsed by Lorne Michaels’.

Where the hell is Darrell Hammond on the Saturday Night Live opening credits, hmm? The actor showed up on Thursday to do his famous Bill Clinton impersonation but was mysteriously missing from the Saturday version of the show. Hammond has served fourteen years with the series to become the most tenured cast member in SNL history…and what? Now he’s out of the weekend loop?

The last news on Hammond came just before the new season premiered; at that time, he was said to still be “in negotiations” with SNL. His presence on Thursday’s Weekend Update seemed to cement his status as a continuing cast member…until he was suddenly missing from the credits and the entirety of the Saturday show. So what gives?

At this time, SNL and NBC are keeping mum. No press has been released to explain away his absence or to settle the matter once and for all. In fact, the network is firmly sticking to a “no comment” line on the casting issue, which seems to hint that there’s something going on behind the scenes.