The girl you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with at a party is leaving the party.
Cecily Strong made her final appearance on the Christmas episode of “Saturday Night Live,” leaving the long-running NBC sketch show after 11 seasons.
Fittingly, she bid farewell to the Office Weekend Update via her recurring character Cathy Anne, Michael Che’s drug-addicted neighbor. With a Santa hat on her head and a cigarette in her hand, Cathy Anne admitted that she was finally going to prison but is not mad about it: “I think it will give me a stability which I have need. I have friends inside, they seem to be fine,” she said alongside an inset photo of deceased cast members Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon.
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Strong then broke down the character in a meta way to sum up his time on “SNL”: “It’s just my time now but I had a lot of fun here. And I feel really lucky to have been able to have so many of the best moments of my life in this place, with these people that I love so much.”
In the final skit of the evening, set at a Radio Shack Christmas party, Kenan Thompson paid tribute to his fellow cast member. “Honestly, I don’t think Radio Shack could have survived this long without Cecily,” he said. “Every time she came to work, she had a new character or a new accent or a new feeling that blew your mind. She had a power and a joy in her performance that reminded you why you loved working in radio. first place.”
Strong then closed the show by singing “Blue Christmas” with “Elvis” star host Austin Butler and the rest of the cast.
An “SNL” Instagram post earlier Saturday confirmed her release: “Tonight we’re sending out one of the best ever. We’ll miss you, Cecily!”
Strong, 38, joined “SNL” in September 2012 as the featured cast member for the show’s 38th season, was promoted to repertoire player a year later and is the longest-serving female cast member on the show. series history, beating a mark owned by McKinnon. . She first co-anchored Weekend Update with Seth Meyers, and when he left to host “Late Night” in 2014, Strong teamed up with writer Colin Jost.
She portrayed a slew of political figures during the show’s run amid the Trump and Biden presidential administrations, including Justice Jeanine Pirro, Michigan Governor Gretchen Witmer, Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, US Senator Arizona Kyrsten Sinema and Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake. Additionally, she also brought some hilarious quirky personalities to 30 Rock, like the aforementioned Girl and Cathy Anne, as well as up-and-coming British singer Gemma.
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Strong also made headlines last year for a personal skit she did on abortion dressed as the character Goober the Clown, in response to Supreme Court arguments over a restrictive new abortion law. in Texas.
“I had an abortion the day before my 23rd birthday…but it’s a tough subject, so we’re going to do some fun clown stuff to make it more palatable,” Strong said alongside Jost and Che.
During her time on “SNL,” Strong — who was nominated for an Emmy in 2020 and 2021 — appeared in films including “The Meddler,” “The Boss” and “Ghostbusters” and hosted the correspondent’s dinner. the White House in 2015. She will next star in the upcoming second season of the Apple TV+ musical comedy series “Schmigadoon!”
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