Cecily Strong - 'Good One' Interview

[@kendalgoodson]

This lady has it all! Beauty, brains, dedication to her craft, incredible humor and a wonderful singing voice.

[@mr.corradosemail5304]

Excellent in depth meta interview. Deeper appreciation for Cecily’s processes.

[@j.p.pelzman7481]

Drunks are very funny. Until you have to grow up with an alcoholic father who berates you as a child. Trust me, Cecily, I can tell you from personal experience, they aren't as funny when they are cursing you when you're age 10 and you're scared every time your father comes home. I'm 56 now and those memories still haunt me. No, he never hit me, but the verbal abuse doesn't go away either. I used to like her a lot. I think she's super talented but now when I see her it's hard to laugh. I'm disappointed in her.

[@Amanda-kd1zr]

I have an alcoholic father too and my mother had an alcoholic father, and we still find her impression funny. I know that everyone's experience is different and you have every right to not find the alcohol aspect funny. By all means don't laugh if it triggers you. But she's been through some shit that she doesn't even talk about in this interview which she tries to draw humor from. also the whole point is the absurdity of that state of being. Like, it's not presented like, "this person is so lovable for being drunk!" Its showing how ridiculous that type of person is--that is why it's called SATIRICAL humor. The main point is more about getting colin wet, then even really playing the drunk part up--otherwise there would be a lot of slurring or stumbling. If she was a character on a sitcom stumbling around we we were supposed to find the her great it would be a different story. Again you don't have to find it funny or enjoy it but I think you're viewing the intent as drunk=funny rather than the absurdity of wine culture (she's literally been in sketches commenting on that)...and the fact of the matter is that they have done many sketches with drunk characters, because drunk comes out differently in different people and in nature you're supposed to recognize things you see in real life. To single her out specifically as someone you're "disappointed in" like she's some awful, insensitive personis a bit surprising when, again others have done it...