Saturday Evening Reside recruited Sturdy expertise for its Saturday, Might 10, episode — as in Cecily Sturdy, making her first return to the NBC sketch comedy present since her 2022 departure.
Sturdy’s cameo got here within the episode’s chilly open, as James Austin Johnson’s Donald Trump mentioned he simply appointed “one of many loudest individuals [he knows]” as the USA lawyer for the District of Columbia, Fox Information star Jeanine Pirro.
The stay viewers whooped and hollered as Sturdy made her entrance, impersonating Pirro as she has greater than a dozen occasions earlier than.
“I’m so proud to be a part of this group stuffed with Russian belongings, boozehounds, and other people well-known for the little child animals they’ve killed,” Sturdy’s Pirro mentioned. “So all you soul sisters and brothers, put the phrase out on the road. There’s a nasty new mama jama laying down the legislation, getting down in Funkytown, wanting high quality and sipping wine.”
And talking of wine, Sturdy’s buddy Colin Jost obtained a face stuffed with it — repeatedly — as Sturdy’s Pirro reacted to seeing Jost’s Pete Hegseth, one other Fox Information character, with a number of spit takes.
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Sturdy joined SNL in Season 37 and left in Season 48, rating because the present’s longest-running feminine solid member.
Throughout her time on the present, Sturdy served as a Weekend Replace cohost, and she or he performed characters like Cathy Anne, One-Dimensional Feminine Character Heather, and The Lady You Want You Hadn’t Began a Dialog with at a Occasion. Her different superstar impressions on SNL, in the meantime, included Melania Trump, Rachel Maddow, Sofia Vergara, and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Sturdy exited the present in December 2022, with visitor host Austin Butler channeling Elvis Presley as he serenaded her.
“I’m sorry I’ve been somewhat quiet about [the departure] publicly,” she informed followers on the time, per Selection. “I didn’t need the additional strain on one thing already so emotional for me. And I’m so grateful I obtained to have these fantastic previous six reveals to assist me ease into it and get to fulfill and chuckle and doubtless overly hug [new cast members] Molly, Marcello, Devon, and Michael, who I feel will not be solely brilliantly humorous however actually nice people. I’m able to go, however I’ll at all times know house is right here. I’ve had the time of my life working with the best individuals on earth.”
Saturday Evening Reside, Saturdays, 11:30/10:30c, NBC