--- description: Thankfully, it wasn't anything personal title: This Is Why You Didn't See Cheri Oteri on 'SNL 40' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37e401269cd05e24/69877f91a988ca592b6ac80e/ap366047438754-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Is Why You Didn't See Cheri Oteri on _SNL 40_ by [Alex Heigl / People](/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 17, 2015 2:59 PM CUT  Cheri Oteri attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on Feb. 15, 2015. Cheri Oteri attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on Feb. 15, 2015.Evan Agostini—AP by [Alex Heigl / People](/author/people/) ## Alex Heigl / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 17, 2015 2:59 PM CUT Live from New York, it’s … an inconvenient scheduling conflict. Twitter was noticeably upset that _Saturday Night Live_ alumni [Cheri Oteri](http://www.people.com/article/barbara-walters-retires-the-view-last-show "undefined") was absent from [the show’s 40th anniversary celebration Sunday](http://www.people.com/article/saturday-night-live-snl-40th-anniversary-stars-talk-sketches "undefined"), but the masses can rest assured Oteri wasn’t excluded for any personal reasons – other than her schedule. Oteri visited _Watch What Happens Live_ Monday night and explained her noticeable absence – she was a cornerstone of many 1990s-era sketches on the show – was due to a simple scheduling conflict that couldn’t be resolved until the very last minute, at which point it was just too late to secure her participation. Well, it’s prosaic, but at least now we know there’s nothing personal going on between Oteri and the rest of the _SNL_ crew. In the words of Oteri and [Will Ferrell](http://www.people.com/article/saturday-night-live-40th-anniversary-5-essential-moments "undefined")‘s Spartan cheerleaders, that would make us R-O-W-D-Y, and not in a good way. _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/cheri-oteri-snl-reunion-andy-cohen "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com "undefined")_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3711810/cheri-oteri-snl-40/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3711810/cheri-oteri-snl-40/"},"headline":"This Is Why You Didn't See Cheri Oteri on SNL 40","datePublished":"2015-02-17T14:59:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:28:27.548Z","description":"Thankfully, it wasn't anything personal","url":"https://time.com/3711810/cheri-oteri-snl-40/","keywords":["Television","celebrities","SNL","Saturday Night Live"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37e401269cd05e24/69877f91a988ca592b6ac80e/ap366047438754-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alex Heigl / People"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt37e401269cd05e24/69877f91a988ca592b6ac80e/ap366047438754-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Cheri Oteri attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on Feb. 15, 2015.","caption":"Cheri Oteri attends the SNL 40th Anniversary Special at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on Feb. 15, 2015.","creditText":"Evan Agostini—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3711810/cheri-oteri-snl-40/","name":"This Is Why You Didn't See Cheri Oteri on SNL 40"}}]}] ```