Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Kate McKinnon

Kate McKinnon

 One last thing Kate McKinnon did on SNL, a thing I loved, was to bring Amy Coney Barrett to life. A villain doesn't know she is a villain, and so McKinnon makes Coney Barrett into a deranged, chipper chatterbox. McKinnon's hands swat at the air, as if brushing away pesky opponents. McKinnon also trots out her judgmental Justin Bieber face, to indicate how Ms. Coney Barrett feels about young pregnant people. But an additional star here is the writer, whoever that may be. The lines are brilliant. When ACB recalls the Supreme Court case, she shrugs and says, "I asked all of my question." Referring to "safe haven" laws, ACB says, "Just do your nine and plop. It's not even ten months. It's nine. Plop the baby, JUNGLE BOOK it, and move on." Finally, "it's not murder if you give birth, wrap the baby in a bag, and drop it in a mailbox. Or just turn it over to a stork, have the stork dump it on some lesbians!" I don't get tired of...

The Art of Kate McKinnon

 Just tipping a hat to Kate McKinnon, who is leaving SNL. One of my favorite McKinnon works is a spoof of the Todd Haynes film "Carol." Carol has brought her new friend, Therese, to lunch. "Tell me about your last name," says Carol, and Therese says, "It's Czech." This excites Carol: "Czech please! Czech right here! I'll take the Czech. I'm coming down with  Therese Syndrome..... "  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QljnNIBtaI I also like McKinnon as Ingrid Bergman at the end of "Casablanca." Ingrid doesn't know what to say to her lover, as she leaves him to his bloody and maybe fatal near-future, so Ingrid just says, "Bye-eeeeee!"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQKVIJnfiNM Finally, in this house, we adore McKinnon as Elsa in the "cut scenes" from "Frozen II." Elsa has a secret, and she isn't sure if she can continue to bury the truth. "This forest is so disorienting," she say...