Cecily Strong was taking shots at everyone in DC. No one was safe. It didn’t matter if you were a press, republican, democrat, Tea Party member or sitting President. All politicians and members of the media were fair game. The problem was that her jokes were crude and sometimes mean rather than witty or funny.
Not Funny:
- “I’m going to go easy on you people because my brain is smaller,” Strong said in one of a few jokes about her gender.
- Joking that Amtrak has its own massage seats, Strong said, “All you have to do is sit in front of Joe Biden.”
- “It’s great to be here at the Washington Hilton – is something a prostitute would say to a congressman,” Strong said.
- “If these walls could talk, they would probably say, ‘Clean me.’ “
- Some of Strong’s best lines:
- “We finally made it, straight people.”
- “It’s been a great year for women — as always.”
That said, she did have a few gems. Though not many.
- “It feels right to have a woman follow president Obama, doesn’t it?”
- Strong said she wouldn’t tell lawmakers how to govern. “That would be like you guys telling me what to do with my body.”
- She called the Secret Service “the only law enforcement agency in the country that will get in trouble if a black man gets shot.”
- “Buzzfeed is here, but I can show you a list of 17 reasons why they shouldn’t be.”
- “If anyone is guilty of taking ISIS too lightly, it’s him,” she said, gesturing toward Obama.
- “What can I say about Brian Williams? Nothing, because I work for NBC.”
- “It’s 2015, and we still have TV characters like Don Lemon? It’s ridiculous.”