Former Saturday Night Live cast member Cecily Strong became “uncomfortable” at the last minute with the cold open skit on the House congressional hearings on antisemitism on college campuses, according to a new report.
Strong was to play Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) on Saturday’s show, but a source said that during dress rehearsal, she backed out.
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New cast member Chloe Troast took over for Strong in playing Stefanik.
The sketch was a parody of last week’s congressional hearing in which Stefanik grilled the presidents of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Despite the controversy of the hearing being about the heads of the Ivy League universities providing…
