NEW YORK — Emmy-winning “Saturday Night Live” director Don Roy King is bidding farewell to 30 Rock.
King, who got the gig in 2006, is retiring, a spokeswoman for NBC confirmed to the Daily News Tuesday. In his place, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” director Liz Patrick will take over.
Over his 15-year tenure, King, 73, won 11 Emmy Awards with “SNL,” including at the 2021 ceremony earlier this month. He previously worked on “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather,” “CBS This Morning” and “Good Morning America.”
King was just the fourth “SNL” director in show history, following Dave Wilson, Paul Miller and Beth McCarthy Miller.
Patrick, meanwhile, has helmed more than 2,000 episodes of “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” since taking over in 2004. She’s also worked with DeGeneres on “Ellen’s Game of Games,” “Repeat After Me” and “Heads Up!” after 15 years at MTV.
The handover is expected to take place before Season 47 premieres Saturday with host Owen Wilson and musical guest Kacey Musgraves.
On Monday, Beck Bennett announced that he would be leaving the show after eight seasons, along with Lauren Holt, who debuted last fall.
Three new comedians, Aristotle Athari, James Austin Johnson and Sarah Sherman, have joined the cast as featured actors.
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