Strong capped a triumphant 11-season run with her final episode making her the show’s longest-running female performer.
SNLbid farewell to a real one.
Strong trotted out Cathy Anne for one last rodeo because, turns out, she’s going to prison.

On Cecily Strong’s last show as a cast member on SNL, host Austin Butler serenaded her with ‘Blue Christmas’.Will Heath/NBC via Getty
“But I guess take that with a grain of salt being that I have addiction issues.”
And she finally got her cigarette lit.
There was some more singing in the final sketch of the night and the year.
While that sounds like a fun, or exhausting, Radio Shack (do they still have those?
NowSNLdoesn’t bring out the musical goodbyes for justanyone, so you know Cecily Strong will be missed.