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Darel Jevens

WATCH: ‘I feel real lucky,’ Cecily Strong says as she closes her ‘SNL’ run in character

Cecily Strong gives a “Saturday Night Live” farewell address in the persona of her character Cathy Anne. (NBC)

Cecily Strong, the former Chicagoan who was in the “Saturday Night Live” cast longer than any other woman, bid the show farewell this weekend with not one but two grand sendoffs.

In the first, Strong reprised the character of Cathy Anne, a rambling street addict in a pink windbreaker. Unlit cigarette in hand, the incorrigible lawbreaker Cathy Anne told Weekend Update anchor Michael Che that this was her final appearance because she had agreed to a lifetime prison sentence.

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