Another longtime Saturday Night Live forged member is saying goodbye: Cecily Strong is leaving the NBC sketch present, with this Saturday’s Christmas episode being her remaining one.
The present introduced the exit forward of Saturday’s present by way of Twitter and Instagram, posting photographs and movies of Strong together with the caption: “Tonight we send off one of the best to ever do it. We’ll miss you, Cecily!” A supply tells TVLine that it was at all times the plan for Strong to return for less than the primary half of the present Season 48. (She missed a number of episodes earlier this season whereas performing The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life within the Universe in Los Angeles.)
Strong joined SNL as a featured participant in 2012, graduating to turn into a full-fledged forged member the next yr and co-hosting Weekend Update together with Seth Meyers. She earned a pair of Emmy nominations for greatest supporting actress in a comedy in 2020 and 2021. Strong leaves SNL because the longest-tenured feminine forged member within the present’s historical past, edging out Kate McKinnon. She’s subsequent set to return for Season 2 of the Apple TV+ musical comedy Schmigadoon!, airing subsequent yr.
Her departure is simply the most recent for SNL, with McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant, Chris Redd, Melissa Villaseñor, Kyle Mooney, Alex Moffat and Aristotle Athari already exiting the present this yr. Strong’s farewell episode, hosted by Elvis star Austin Butler and that includes musical visitor Lizzo, airs tonight at 11:30 pm ET on NBC.
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