The Dec. 17 episode of “Saturday Night Live” wasn’t simply the final episode of 2022, it doubled as a goodbye to longtime solid member Cecily Strong. Her exit was introduced on the official “SNL” Twitter previous to the episode’s premiere. “Tonight we ship off among the best to ever do it. We’ll miss you, Cecily!” the tweet learn.
Strong first joined “SNL” in 2012, and rapidly created a variety of memorable recurring characters together with The Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started a Conversation with at a Party and the powerful Cathy Anne, who she made one ultimate look as through the Weekend Update section. “I’m slightly emo tonight, as a result of I’m right here to say goodbye,” the “Schmigadoon!” star stated in-character to Michael Che. When Che requested her why she was leaving, she joked, “seems, jail.”
Tonight we ship off among the best to ever do it. We’ll miss you, Cecily! pic.twitter.com/zsoGfw8SdP
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 18, 2022
She went on to guarantee Che that she could be simply advantageous since she already had “associates on the within they usually appear to be doing OK.” At that time, an image of Season 47 departing solid members Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon carrying orange jumpsuits appeared onscreen.
From there, Strong let her character slip barely as she bid the present farewell. “I had a superb run, I imply, I met you,” Strong stated to Che. “And Colin [Jost], do not you assume I forgot about you. Here’s an image of you and me doing Update collectively.”
She continued, “Everybody has to go to jail sooner or later, and it is simply my time now, however I really feel actually fortunate that I obtained to spend so most of the finest moments of my life with these people who I like a lot.”
Later within the episode, host Austin Butler joined Kenan Thompson and the remainder of the solid in serenading Strong with a rendition of “Blue Christmas.” Thompson, who stays the present’s longest working solid member, sang, “You’ll be doing all proper each Saturday night time. But we’ll all have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas.”
While Strong is the primary “SNL” solid member to exit season 48, the top of season 47 noticed a variety of excessive profile exits from the sequence. Among the solid members who just lately left the present are Pete Davidson, Bryant, McKinnon, Alex Moffat, and Melissa Villaseñor, amongst others. Remaining solid members embody Thompson, Heidi Gardner, Chloe Fineman, Ego Nwodim, Mikey Day, and Bowen Yang.