'SNL': Cecily Strong sings Elvis classic, says goodbye after 11 years - USA TODAY

The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation with astatine a Party is leaving the party.

Cecily Strong made her last quality connected the Christmas occurrence of "Saturday Night Live," departing the long-running NBC sketch amusement aft 11 seasons.

Fittingly, she said her goodbyes astatine the Weekend Update table via her recurring quality Cathy Anne, anchor Michael Che's drug-addicted neighbor. With a Santa chapeau connected her caput and cigaret successful hand, Cathy Anne admitted that she's yet going to prison but isn't huffy astir it: "I deliberation it’s going to springiness maine immoderate much-needed stability. I got friends connected the inside, they look to beryllium doing OK," she said alongside an inset representation of departed formed members Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon.

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Strong past broke quality successful meta manner to sum up her clip connected "SNL": "It's conscionable my clip present but I had a batch of amusive here. And I consciousness truly fortunate that I got to person truthful galore of the champion moments of my beingness astatine this place, with these people I emotion truthful much."

In the past sketch of the night, acceptable astatine a Radio Shack Christmas party, Kenan Thompson paid tribute to his chap formed member. "Honestly I don't deliberation Radio Shack could person survived this agelong without Cecily," helium said. "Every clip she came to work, she had a caller quality or a caller accent oregon a caller impression that would conscionable blow you away. She'd person a powerfulness and a joyousness to her show that made you retrieve wherefore you loved moving astatine Radio Shack successful the archetypal place."

Strong past closed the amusement singing "Blue Christmas" with host"Elvis" prima Austin Butler and the remainder of the cast.

An "SNL" Instagram post earlier Saturday confirmed her exit: "Tonight we nonstop disconnected 1 of the champion to ever bash it. We’ll miss you, Cecily!"

Strong, 38, joined "SNL" successful September 2012 arsenic a featured subordinate successful the show's 38th season, was promoted to repertory subordinate a twelvemonth aboriginal and is the longest-tenured pistillate formed subordinate successful the series' history, breaking a people held by McKinnon. She co-anchored Weekend Update first with Seth Meyers, and erstwhile helium near to big "Late Night" successful 2014,  Strong teamed with writer Colin Jost.

She portrayed a slew of governmental characters during the show's tally amid the Trump and Biden presidential administrations, including Judge Jeanine Pirro, Michigan politician Gretchen Witmer, Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Arizona legislator Kyrsten Sinema and Arizona gubernatorial campaigner Kari Lake. In addition, she brought hilarious archetypal personalities to 30 Rock arsenic well, similar the aforementioned Girl and Cathy Anne plus aspiring British vocalist Gemma.

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Strong besides made headlines past twelvemonth for a idiosyncratic sketch she performed astir abortion dressed arsenic the quality Goober the Clown, successful effect to the Supreme Court proceeding arguments astir a restrictive new Texas termination law.

"I had an termination the time earlier my 23rd day … but it's a unsmooth subject, truthful we're going to bash amusive clown worldly to marque it much palatable," Strong said alongside Jost and Che.

During her clip connected "SNL," Strong – who was nominated for an Emmy successful 2020 and 2021 – appeared successful movies including "The Meddler," "The Boss" and "Ghostbusters" arsenic good arsenic hosted the White House Correspondent's Dinner successful 2015. She adjacent stars successful the upcoming 2nd play of the Apple TV+ philharmonic drama bid “Schmigadoon!"

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