Cecily Strong Is ‘Emo’ As She Says Goodbye To ‘SNL’ After 11 Seasons: Watch

Saturday Night Live had a much affectional vibe than accustomed connected its Dec. 17 show arsenic it was the past show arsenic a formed subordinate for the inimitable Cecily Strong. The 38-year-old histrion said goodbye to the famed drama bid aft making her archetypal quality astatine Studio 8H backmost successful 2012. Per usual, Cecily did a batch of dense lifting by performing successful the bulk of sketches, but this time, she did it portion holding backmost tears, arsenic she was flanked connected signifier by host Austin Butler and philharmonic impermanent Lizzo for her last bow.

We emotion you, Cecily pic.twitter.com/XmQUpOOqgD

— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 18, 2022

The quality came lone a fewer hours earlier the amusement went live, astonishing longtime fans arsenic Cecily is 1 of the strongest players successful the cast, which saw a immense shakeup astatine the extremity of past season, with Kate McKinnon and Pete Davidson saying goodbye. “Tonight we nonstop disconnected 1 of the champion to ever bash it. We’ll miss you, Cecily!” the Michael Lorne-led accumulation wrote connected its authoritative Instagram, alongside a photograph of a motion that read, “We’ll miss you, Cecily.”

Cecily’s tenure made history, arsenic it was the longest of immoderate pistillate successful Saturday Night Live history. After joining the formed a decennary ago, Cecily grew a immense instrumentality basal with her hilarious off-the-wall characters, similar the recurring conception connected Weekend Update arsenic the Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation With, and with her spot-on impersonations, specified arsenic Liz Cheney, Melania Trump and Fox News anchor Jeanine Pirro.

In 1 of her last performances, Cecily tackled fan-favorite quality Cathy Anne, a middle-aged lawbreaker surviving connected the street. She told Michael Che that this was her past quality connected Weekend Update due to the fact that she had agreed to a beingness situation sentence. “I consciousness existent fortunate that I got to person truthful galore of the champion moments of my beingness with these radical I emotion truthful much,” Cecily said successful Cathy Anne’s signature husky voice. Later, she was serenaded by Austin and the remainder of the formed with an affectional mentation of “Blue Christmas,” seen above.

Austin Butler serenaded Cecily Strong connected her past show arsenic a formed subordinate for ‘Saturday Night Live,’ (NBC)

Even earlier Saturday’s episode, Cecily has indicated a last curtain telephone for her days astatine 30 Rockefeller. “I’ll beryllium thrilled if I spell back, I’ll beryllium thrilled if that was my past show,” she told Entertainment Tonight in June, a period after season 46 wrapped. She besides stressed that “things are a spot much up successful the air, and I’m OK with that. My acquisition from past twelvemonth is benignant of spot what happens,” she told ET.

At the time, a root EXCLUSIVELY besides told HollywoodLife that Cecily was inactive undecided. “Everyone has been welcomed backmost from Lorne and the amusement if they determine that is champion for them, but contracts are inactive going done arsenic Cecily for 1 hasn’t decided that she wants to instrumentality yet oregon not oregon adjacent instrumentality portion time.”

Fortunately for fans, Cecily did instrumentality for the archetypal fractional of Season 48. And they tin proceed to cheer her connected arsenic she returns to the surface successful the 2nd play of the AppleTV+ bid Schmigadoon!, which is enforcement produced by Lorne. Cecily besides serves arsenic a shaper connected the show.

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