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SNL’s out player Kate McKinnon is sorely underused in our estimation, but the woman who’s nailed Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster and Edie Falco impressions did make a couple of appearances on this week’s episode hosted by Kevin Hart.
SNL’s out player Kate McKinnon is sorely underused in our estimation, but the woman who’s nailed Ellen DeGeneres, Jodie Foster and Edie Falco impressions did make a couple of appearances on this week’s episode hosted by Kevin Hart.
The show’s cold open skewered the government's looming sequestration and how deep budget cuts would affect working Americans including TSA agents, border patrol and the space program, represented by McKinnon as a butchy astronaut.
Later, the episode featured a Walking Dead parody in which McKinnon played kickass Maggie. The bad news is that she was terribly underutilized in the sketch, but the good news is that she’s in a tank top.
We’re waiting for SNL to grasp that McKinnon is the season’s MVP and that they need to use her in EVERYTHING. But, for now, there’s this.
Cold Open:
The Walking Dead:
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
