PAS #2 – Goodbye Kristen and Andy

Ever watch a show and then they kill off your favorite character?

You watch the show and love it so much that you start getting attached to characters. You root for them, sharing in their pain and happiness and then they die or move away and you just don’t know what to do with yourself. It happened to me this summer during the season of Rookie Blue. It was the first TV show to actually make me tear up, and it wasn’t even about my favorite character.

Then I remembered that my two favorite SNL cast members left the show. RIP Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg.

Although they didn’t die, two of my favorite cast members of all time retired from the show. These two comedians had some of the funniest skits on SNL. I laugh just looking at them or thinking about them. I watched the season premiere of SNL last Saturday and it just broke my heart when Kristen and Andy weren’t in the opening cast theme song. I have been in denial since the spring when I found out they were leaving the show. How will life go on?

Let me just say that the new cast members have a LOT to live up to.

A closure to one of Kristen’s recurring role in the skit Gilly, the character Gilly almost had a death. But that Gilly fooled us all again and she lived. “Sorry.” <eyebrow raise>

It’s a tale as old as time: kids grow up and leave the house. Graduating high school, moving out of my house and into my dorm here at Penn State. Kristen, Andy, and I are all in the same boat…except T-Pain and I aren’t tight…yet. (“I’m on a boat”) ] On the last show of this past season, the last skit was of the cast graduating and Kristen leaving to become a nun. That is far from what she will actually be doing but I wish the best to her and I’m waiting in eager anticipation to find out her next project. It just better be funny. Really funny.

My bud Andy Samberg took a different approach. He actually went to a college. Harvard University to be exact.

Psych. He actually did go to Harvard, but only to speak for class day before graduation. You can watch the video here. He didn’t even receive an honorary degree from Dean Hammonds but just having the opportunity to speak there would be awesome. His speech is 23 minutes of time well spent.

Although these two amazing comedians are no longer on Saturday Night Live, their many skits and digital shorts will live on. They will certainly not be forgotten. I feel confident in the new cast that they will do a great job but I am waiting for when Kristen or Andy come back to host. Until then, we’ll just have to settle for watching their old skits. New episode tomorrow. Laugh on.

 

 

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