{"id":43795,"date":"2022-08-13T01:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T01:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kate-mckinnon-reveals-the-2-moments-she-felt-most-connected-to-snl-audiences\/"},"modified":"2022-08-13T01:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T01:23:46","slug":"kate-mckinnon-reveals-the-2-moments-she-felt-most-connected-to-snl-audiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kate-mckinnon-reveals-the-2-moments-she-felt-most-connected-to-snl-audiences\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate McKinnon Reveals The 2 Moments She Felt ‘Most Connected’ To ‘SNL’ Audiences"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kate McKinnon continues to unpack every departure from \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The comedian, who spent 11 seasons on the show, recently shared two of the moments she felt \u201cmost connected\u201d to the \u201cSNL\u201d audience during every time there. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cOne was after Hillary [Clinton] had lost, and the cold open was me playing ‘Hallelujah’ on the piano,\u201d McKinnon revealed on Vulture’s \u201cGood One\u201d podcast on Thursday. \u201cI felt that for the people for whom that was a tragic event, I felt very connected and in a very real way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThen I also felt really connected that first time when I did the alien abduction sketch,\u201d she said, of one of her all-time greatest sketches on the show, which included guest Ryan Gosling and fellow \u201cSNL\u201d stars Aidy Bryant and Cecily strong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton sings Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” during the “Election Week Cold Open” sketch on Nov. 12, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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\u201cIt was a completely different experience \u2014 people were laughing instead of crying \u2014 and yet it was the same recognition of ‘We’re all in this together, guys,’\u201d McKinnon added of the 2015 sketch, called \u201cClose Encounter,\u201d where she plays Colleen Rafferty. \u201cWe all feel the same way about something.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The \u201cGhostbusters\u201d actor reprized the alien abduction skit one last time for her final show, where her character bid a tearful farewell to earth \u2015 and the audience. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEarth, I love ya. Thanks for letting me stay a while,\u201d she said, getting emotional. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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McKinnon told Vulture that she’d ruminated on her goodbye sketch \u201cfor a long time,\u201d as she wanted a \u201cmoment of catharsis of trying to encapsulate what the whole thing had meant to me and telling that to the audience.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI anticipated it being this moment of absolute release, and it was, in a way,\u201d the comedian said. And yet, she admitted it wasn’t \u201cthe most meaningful moment of the decade in the way that I thought it might be.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Kate McKinnon, Cecily Strong, and Ryan Gosling during the “Close Encounter” sketch on Dec. 5, 2015. <\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n
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McKinnon said the most meaningful moments she experienced in her time on the sketch series were \u201clike on a Friday night at rehearsal, I decided to stop and look around at the people who I loved so much and just make a memory of it.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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McKinnon recently shared the specific reason for every departure, revealing on \u201cLive with Kelly and Ryan\u201d in July that her \u201cbody was tired.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI thought about it for a very long time, and it was very, very hard,\u201d McKinnon said at the time. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAll I ever wanted to do in my whole life was be on ‘Saturday Night Live,’\u201d she added. \u201cSo, I did, I loved it, I had the best decade, and then I was just like, my body was tired, and I felt like it was time.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n