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Three months in, she had already establishedfourrecurring characters.
1.Girl You Wish You Hadnt Started a Conversation With at a Party (Various)
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It was self-assured and unflappable in a way that takes most of us years (if were lucky!)
and when she checked her phone making both me and the audience wait it took my breath away.
2.Girlfriends Talk Show (Various)
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The way she says awesome so sweetly yet secretly dismissively is just so funny.
3.Swarvoski Crystals (December 2012)
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Why is Strongs unnamed former porn star so funny?
Is it her unparalleled benzo-acting?
Or is it her ridiculous tangents that hint at a colorful, scary past life?
Shes the queen ditz in Strongs stable of scarred women.
Thanks, Sabovski Crissals!
4.Barnes and Noble Firing (March 2013)
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SomeSNLsketches build to a place of wackiness.
Others just come in hot.
Its a disgruntled-retail death dream.
5.Blue River Dog Food (April 2014)
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Its likeWhos Afraid of Virginia Woolf?but a dog-food ad.
6.Serial: The Christmas Surprise (December 2014)
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Take it away,Laraine Newman: There have been so many extraordinary players on SNL.
I hope you’ve got the option to recognize whats extraordinary about it.
7.Dinner Date (March 2015)
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God Save the Queen (Gemma).
8.Christmas Sing Along (December 2015)
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It helps that Strongs gotpipes.
9.Wells for Boys (December 2016)
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After Bill Hader leftSNLin 2013, Strong became the go-to cast member to do commercial-parody voice-overs.
But we think her work on Wells for Boys is really special.
Her voice had to shift to capture the change in tone while maintaining the reality of a commercial voice-over.
10.Cathy Anne (December 2016)
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Like with how she says awesome, Strong is so skilled at getting the most out ofoneword.
11.Melania Moments (February 2017)
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When Trump came on the political scene, everyone atSNLwas enlisted to do their part.
Thankfully, there was a brunette woman in the family!
12.Italian Restaurant (October 2017)
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Every single sentence she says in every one of these is so funny.
13.Girlfriends Game Night (March 2018)
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14.New Wife (November 2017)
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Strongs best impressions areunspokenbut just as effective regardless of whether you get thereference.
Others know it as the one that made Larry David break.
15.Chantix Commercial (January 2018)
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One of Strongs stock talents is woman who has lost the plot and given up on her dream.
Sweaty desperation, pathos, and some very bad accent work ensue.
16.Irish Dating Show (March 2018)
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17.Jingle Bells (December 2018)
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(Watch ithere.)
18.Jeanine Pirro (March 2019)
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A tour de force.
This is as good as anSNLperformance gets.
19.The Science Room (January 2020)
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Youd know exactly who this dumb little kid is even if the audio were removed.
20.Michigan Hearings Cold Open (December 2020)
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21.Goober the Clown (November 2021)
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