Watch SNL's Cecily Strong as Goober the Clown (who had an abortion at 23)
Cecily Strong Photo: @nbcsnl/Twitter Thanks to states like Texas and Ohio, as well as the challenge to Roe v. Wade looming on the Supreme Court docket, abortion has been in the news constantly over the past few months. To the degree that Saturday Night Live has now weighed in, sending in Goober the Clown — Cecily Strong in a big red nose — to share her personal experience with the procedure on “Weekend Update.
“People keep bringing it up, so I gotta talk about freakin’ abortion,” Strong says. “And I wish I didn’t have to do this, because the abortion I had at 23 is my personal clown business. But that’s all some people in this country wanna discuss all the time, even though clown abortion was legalized in Clown v. Wade in 1973.
Is it funny? That is a question for you to answer subjectively; personally I prefer this approach to a Handmaid’s Tale costume, for example, which is how SNL has framed abortion in the past. In comparison, this feels unexpected if not necessarily hilarious, though I am not sure hilarity was the point. It’s just Strong, sounding frustrated and a little tired as she shares what is ostensibly her own story.
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