opened with one of the show’s most popular skits: Close Encounter, this time with departing cast member Kate McKinnon bidding adieu as Colleen Rafferty really is sent off on an alien spaceship.
“Well, I can read the room. It’s me, right?” Raffery says. “Sure, and why not. I always kind of felt like an alien on this planet anyway.” As with past Close Encounter sketches, the opener had Rafferty sharing a much different alien experience than her fellow abductees, once again repeatedly referring to her private parts with rhyme and alliteration.
Gonna miss her one of the greats