It bought emotional on Saturday Night Live this weekend as one other longtime solid member of the late-night sketch comedy sequence is saying goodbye.
The present introduced that Cecily Strong can be leaving forward of the vacation episode on Saturday, which was hosted by Austin Butler and featured returning musical visitor Lizzo. They wrote on social media:
“Tonight we send off one of the best to ever do it. We’ll miss you, Cecily!”
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So, after all, the solid made positive to provide her an important send-off! During the “Weekend Update,” the 38-year-old actress hopped on the phase as her in style character Cathy Anne, with a Santa hat on her head and cigarette in hand, to share that she wouldn’t be approaching the present anymore. Why is that? Well, Cathy was sentenced to life in jail:
“The crimes I confessed to you, here, for the past seven years finally caught up to me. Drug use, trespassing, destruction of private property, crack, impersonating a police horse, meth, and crack.”
LOLz. At one level, she broke character to inform the viewers with tears in her eyes:
“Listen, listen. Everybody has to go to jail at some point, right? It’s just my time now. But I’ve had a lot of fun here, and I feel really lucky that I got to have so many of the best moments of my life in this place with these people that I love so much.”
Awww! See the emotional second (beneath):
That wasn’t all. The remaining sketch of the evening featured Kenan Thompson honoring Cecily for her 11 years (or eight years, as he joked) at “Radio Shack.” He expressed within the skit:
“Honestly, I don’t think radio shack could have survived this long without Cecily. Every time she came to work, she had a new character or new accent, or new impression that would blow you away. She’d have a power and joy to her performance that made you remember why you loved working at Radio Shack in the first place. I know I’m not supposed to say this as your boss, but I love you, Cecily.”
Then, Austin and the remainder of the solid walked on stage and serenaded her with Elvis Presley’s Blue Christmas. Watch the tear-filled goodbye (beneath):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvTmjdhBRVs
So touching!
Cecily introduced a lot laughter and pleasure to the present, and delivered some very highly effective moments over the previous 11 seasons! She will likely be actually missed!!! But moreover the goodbyes, you can even ch-ch-check out the remainder of the evening’s highlights (beneath) – together with a hilarious sketch of Austin portraying a basic Christmas character from a black-and-white film lamenting about being alone this vacation season and two stellar performances from Lizzo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnvPKUUueFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJjTRUCfZ7c
AH-MAZING!!!
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