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12-10-2017, 08:32 PM
'SNL' Weekend Update gets real about Al Franken, Roy Moore, and sexual misconduct
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Saturday Night Live might have badly dropped the ball (http://mashable.com/2017/12/10/sexual-harassment-charlie-saturday-night-live-wtf/) at one point this week, but the latest episode's Weekend Update sketch delivered, at least.
The usual rapid-fire barrage of one-liners from hosts Michael Che and Colin Jost touched on the news of the day — Jerusalem, Donald Trump's health, a looming possible government shutdown — but the sketch really landed when Cecily Strong arrived to talk about sexual misconduct in Washington, D.C.'s halls of power.
Strong's "Cathy Anne," a hard-drinking, drug-abusing political junkie ("and a regular junkie"), delivers a pointed, frequently crass summation of the dichotomy between now-former Senator Al Franken's recent resignation and Roy Moore's near-certain Congressional election win in Alabama on Dec. 12.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/10/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-franken-moore/)
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Strong's "Cathy Anne," a hard-drinking, drug-abusing political junkie ("and a regular junkie"), delivers a pointed, frequently crass summation of the dichotomy between now-former Senator Al Franken's recent resignation and Roy Moore's near-certain Congressional election win in Alabama on Dec. 12.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/10/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-franken-moore/)
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