Cecily Strong is reflecting on her time on Saturday Night Live after an emotional last show on the sketch show following 11 seasons. “My heart is bursting.
I have a lot of big huge life-changing love to unpack, so this is what I can say tonight,” Strong posted on Instagram. “Ten and a half years ago I got my dream job.
The first actual work day I tried to be very cool and make it look like I knew what I was doing and I was supposed to be there,” she said. “I left that night around 11 after saying goodbye to everyone.
I got stuck wandering around the building because none of the elevators went to the first floor and I was trying so hard to avoid having to go back upstairs to ask for help because I’d already said goodbye!!!” Strong said she ended up going upstairs again and her “soon-to-be great friend Colin Jost” helped her find the “secret nighttime elevator.” She continued, “It felt as impossible to leave that night as it does now.
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