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Austin Butler Honors Late Mother During SNL Monologue
Cecily Strong is saying farewell to NBC's Saturday Night Live.
After appearing connected the amusement for 11 seasons, the prima appeared successful what was announced beryllium her last occurrence arsenic a formed subordinate connected Dec. 17. She announced her departure on the Weekend Update segment portion performing arsenic 1 of her astir fashionable recurring characters, Cathy Anne.
"I'm a small emo contiguous because, information is, I'm present to accidental goodbye," she said, to which co-anchor Michael Che asked, "Wait, wherever are you going?"
Strong's quality past responded, "Turns out, prison!"
She aboriginal joked she had "friends connected the inside," and a photograph of erstwhile SNL formed members Kate McKinnon and Aidy Bryant, who departed the series themselves successful May, dressed successful orangish situation uniforms was screened.
Also connected the episode, the formed adapted Strong's SNL exit into different sketch, which saw her playing herself arsenic a departing RadioShack worker and occurrence host Austin Butler, who played the late Elvis Presley successful the biopic Elvis, statesman to serenade her arsenic "Casual Elvis" with the King of Rock and Roll's 1957 opus "Blue Christmas."
Strong and the remainder of the formed joined in, with the philharmonic fig ending successful galore hugs.
Strong, 38, had until Dec. 17 been absent from astir of the existent 48th play of SNL due to the fact that she was starring successful the Off-Broadway revival of Jane Wagner's one-woman play The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life successful the Universe.
Strong, a autochthonal of Springfield, Ill., joined SNL successful play 38 successful 2012 arsenic a featured subordinate earlier being promoted to formed member the pursuing year. In 2014, Che replaced her arsenic co-anchor of Weekend Update, portion she focused connected acting successful sketches.
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In 2020 and 2021, Strong was nominated for Emmys for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her enactment on SNL. During her clip connected the show, she became known for playing archetypal characters specified arsenic Cathy Anne and The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation with astatine a Party and for her impressions of celebrities specified arsenic Jeanine Pirro and Melania Trump.
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"Every clip she gave to work, she had a caller quality oregon caller accent oregon caller content that would stroke you away," formed subordinate Kenan Thompson said successful the "Blue Christmas" sketch. "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."
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