“We’ll miss you, Cecily!” saturday night live shared on instagram
Cecily is strong As she departs, a host of former cast members join her saturday night live Tonight, December 17th. saturday night live announced the news just hours before the broadcast of its final show of 2022.
“Tonight we send one of the best to do it,” snl Said on Instagram. “We’ll miss you, Cecily!” he captioned a picture sharing the same sentiment written in marker.
Fans probably knew this was coming. At first when Strong wasn’t present during its October 1 season 48 premiere, many wondered if she was joining several mainstays who recently departed saturday night live – including Kate McKinnon, Pete Davidson, Aidy Bryant and Kyle Mooney; and later Chris Redd, Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor with Aristotle Athari. Strong’s absence at that time may be attributed to her role in the revival of the one-woman show, Searching for signs of intelligent life in the universewhich was taking place at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.
she returned snl After the LA show ends on October 23. Season 48 marks Strong’s 11th full season, setting a record: Strong is snlThe longest-running female cast member, surpassing McKinnon, who left the show at the end of season 47 along with Davidson, Bryant and Mooney.
Strong joined the cast in 2012 as a featured player, and by the following season she was a repertory cast member and co-anchor of “Weekend Update”. With Seth Meyers, later joined by Colin Jost on “Weekend” table. She was nominated for Emmys in both 2020 and 2021 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Last week, Strong appeared at the cold open, where she sang a Christmas song with the cast, roasting Elon Musk and Hitler fan Kanye West.
