Strong will make her coanchor debut Sept. Michaels was struck by Strong and hired her to join the cast last season, where she made her mark doing impressions of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Mayor Bloomberg’s animated sign language interpreter, Lydia Callis.Īnd yesterday, a little more than a year later, NBC announced Strong will be taking a seat at the “SNL Weekend Update” table next to Meyers. “I told her she had exactly what Lorne is looking for,” Halpern tells The Post. Halpern pulled the performer into her office, and Strong did a bit about an annoying girl at a party, along with a few other short and sweet impressions. Let me see what you have.” Cecily Strong was hesitant to audition for Lorne Michaels last year, but she did - and she nailed it. “I have some ideas, but I wanted to make sure it was really a great audition before I did it.” “Yeah, I know,” Strong replied from behind the wooden half-door at the box-office counter, where she sold tickets for the twice-nightly improv shows. “We’re getting ready for Lorne Michaels!” “You didn’t audition for me,” Halpern said. She’d gathered her 15 best performers, ready to show them off.īut as she walked past the red glow of the ticket sign in the box office, she spotted Cecily Strong - and realized the 28-year-old had skipped out on the auditions. The theater’s co-founder, Charna Halpern, held auditions before Michaels arrived. In June of 2012, “Saturday Night Live” executive producer Lorne Michaels made his biannual trip to the iO Chicago Theater to scope out the talent, hoping to find the next Tina Fey or Seth Meyers. 'Saturday Night Live' vet Chris Redd latest comedian to leave show
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