SNL’s Cecily Strong Says Goodbye Through Tears: ‘It’s Just My Time Now’ - Rolling Stone

Fans of Saturday Night Live were much than a small amazed erstwhile Cecily Strong, 1 of the sketch-comedy show’s strongest players, returned for its 48^th play this October.

SNL had conscionable experienced a question of high-profile departures—Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kyle Mooney, Alex Moffat, Chris Redd, Melissa Villaseñor and Aristotle Athari—prior to the commencement of the season, and Strong herself had not lone taken the archetypal fewer weeks of it disconnected owed to her one-woman show, but besides her Apple TV+ bid Schmigadoon! had been picked up for a 2nd play acknowledgment to beardown reviews.

After a acold unfastened featuring Strong’s Kimberly Guilfoyle hijacking an infomercial of Trump (James Austin Johnson) selling his gullible fans NFTs by pushing her ain ear-splitting Christmas album, the 11-year seasoned got a due send-off during “Weekend Update.”

Appearing arsenic “two-time Heisman Trophy stealer Cathy Anne,” 1 of Strong’s longest-running bits, the comedienne entered successful a pinkish way overgarment and a Santa hat, struggling to airy a cigarette.

“It’s covering a elephantine unfastened wound,” she said of the Santa hat. “I got a small spot scalped… I fell dormant connected an escalator. It is conscionable a messiness up here. But astatine slightest now, the curtains lucifer the drapes!”

“You know, actually, I’m a small emo contiguous because, information is, I’m present to accidental goodbye,” she added.

When “Weekend Update” co-host Michael Che asked her wherever she was going, Strong’s Cathy Anne exclaimed, “Turns out: prison! All the crimes I confessed to you present for the past 7 years yet caught up with me. You know, cause use, trespassing, demolition of property, crack, impersonating a constabulary officer, and immoderate crack… and doing a mates of Sonic attacks.” (By that, she meant “doing an upper-decker successful a Sonic.”)

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“I deliberation it’s really gonna springiness maine immoderate much-needed stability. And I’m not truthful frightened origin I’ve got friends connected the inside, and they look to beryllium doing OK,” she explained, throwing to a photograph of Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant successful prison, covered successful tattoos.

Then, tearing up, Strong (as Cathy Anne) broke quality a bit, saying, “It’s conscionable my clip now. 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 successful this place, with these radical that I emotion truthful much.”