'Saturday Night Live's' final show of 2022 doubled as a send-off for Cecily Strong, who exited amid her 11th season and as one of the longest-tenured female cast members.
Strong started at the show in 2012 and quickly established herself as indispensable, co-anchoring"Weekend Update" for a brief time and gracing Studio 8H with impressions of Dianne Feinstein, Melania Trump, and news anchor Brooke Baldwin.
Her original characters on the show included Cathy Anne,"Weekend Update" anchor Michael Che's chain-smoking neighbor, which she reprised Saturday in a goodbye sketch."Actually, I’m a little emo here tonight because truth is I’m here to say goodbye," Cathy Anne said. "She'd have a power and a joy to her performance that made you remember why you loved working at ... Radio Shack," he said.
"SNL" creator Lorne Michaels has tapped Second City talent since the show's first season, and told the"Chicago looks at both coasts and isn’t terribly impressed," he said.
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