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SNL Writer Joe Bodolai's Suicide: 'It's Not A Huge Surprise,' Says Friend

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Dec. 27 2011, Published 8:00 a.m. ET

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By Amber Goodhand - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

Joe Bodolai, a former Saturday Night Live writer who worked on the hit film Wayne's World, was found dead in a Los Angeles hotel room of an apparent suicide, and Breaking Celebrity News has exclusively learned that those who knew him are not surprised that he took his own life.

Not only did Joe, 63, post an eerie blog titled If This Was Your Last Day Alive What Would You Do? just three days before his death, but his friend and actress Sarah Hyland, (not the Modern Family actress) says the depressed writer had expressed similar thoughts to her through letters in the past as well.

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"Joe did show signs of depression through the years we had worked together...so, no, it is not a huge surprise," Sarah told Breaking Celebrity News.

"He had written letters to me long before he ever actually went through with it. He will be very missed."

According to authorities, a bottle of Gatorade and antifreeze were recovered from Joe's hotel room after the cleaning crew discovered his body.

In Joe's blog, he wrote that he was proud of his two sons, campaigning for the late Robert Kennedy, and "writing the first draft of Wayne's World with Mike Myers.

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"I kinda knew our draft was really a second movie, not an expository first reveal, but my heart wanted him to find his voice. He sure did," Joe wrote, adding, "The second movie? Nothing to do with me. Wow, did i