-Thank you for coming down to visit us.
-Thank you for finally letting me.
-Oh, are you kidding me?
We've done some great sketches together.
I'm shocked that you haven't been on here more.
But I guess you were working upstairs.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-You don't have time to come down here.
-They don't let me. They don't let me down.
-Who do you have hosting this week?
-It's Natalie Portman. -Oh.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Natalie -- -You've heard of her?
-Yes. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Natalie Portmonica. We love her, man.
-Yeah. -That's gonna be fun.
I saw last week was a great episode, Will Ferrell.
Unbelievable. -Truly.
-But yeah, I just -- And he's so much fun to work with.
He's -- he's game, right? -Turns out he's really fun.
-Yeah. It turns out he actually --
-I was nervous. -Yeah.
You did a sketch called "Reality Stars"
where your faces were both pulled back.
You guys are from a small town.
You come home to visit your old friends.
-Yes. -And they're like,
"Oh, maybe they haven't changed."
And then this is what you guys look like
when they see you guys. -Gorgeous.
[ Laughter ]
-And it was unbelievably funny.
Dude, it's so good.
When I hosted, we tried this.
-We did. -In dress rehearsal.
-That was -- and it was -- It was so much fun.
And it made me -- -I was crying laughing, yeah.
Just looking at your face. I didn't know how they did that.
-When we first -- we had -- They make this tape
a lot of drag queens use. Well, not a lot.
There's a couple famous drag queens that use it
and some older actresses.
-Okay. -It's rumored.
I don't know. -Yeah.
-But there's, like, a tape that you use.
-It's the most bizarre thing.
-And we used it in the wrong places sort of.
[ Laughter ] To get the desired effect.
-Kind of, yeah. We used it in the wrong place.
But also, I -- Mine was very sweaty.
I have a very big Irish head and I sweat a lot.
-I'm -- I'm very sweaty, too.
-But my half of my face came down,
so when I did the sketch, like, I was like -- that.
-Yeah.
-And -- so, but we started laughing --
-Immediately. -But gosh, that sketch
made me laugh so hard,
and it was written by James Anderson and...
-And Kent Sublette. -Kent Sublette.
-And actually you -- I feel like we need to give you
a writing credit, because the dog was your idea.
-Did I?
-You said "I should be holding a dog, I think."
[ Laughter ] And then --
-Oh, yeah. He traveled and he holds a dog.
-And it was that dog. I don't know if you remember.
[ Laughter ]
-Was it the same dog? -It was the same dog.
And that dog is so calm and so relaxed.
And her owner holds her that way and it's sort of, like,
just hold her in the crook of your arm.
And that's how -- what she likes.
-It's a chill dog. -Yeah, she's very --
I guess shih tzu's are that way.
-Didn't I do rehearsal with a squirrel or something?
-You rehearsed with a stuffed squirrel.
-Okay, good. Yeah, okay, I just wanted --
-Like a stuffed animal. Not a dead...
-No, of course. -...stuffed squirrel.
-I was doing my -- maybe it was like a fever dream,
if that didn't happen. -No, no, no.
No, it's real. -It did really happen, yeah.
I have a -- We have a clip of it.
This is -- is this rehearsal or dress rehearsal?
Of when we did it?
-I think you have a dress rehearsal.
-All right, we have -- it's the dress rehearsal
of us doing the -- -If we're in makeup.
-Yeah, I know. -It's a dress rehearsal.
-Let's take a look. Footage of Cecily and I doing...
-Do you think they've changed?
-Oh, I doubt it. They're probably the same
down-home sweet people they always were.
-Oh, my God, we are late.
We are the worst.
-We suck so bad and so hard.
[ Laughter ]
I need hugs from everyone.
-Oh, so do I!
[ Cheers and applause ]
-The dog was just hanging out.
-It doesn't move.
-Dude, you're always great.
I love you. Every week I watch you.
And you're so fantastic.
You do a great Melania Trump impression.
-Oh, thank you. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I mean, it's fantastic. [ Cheers and applause ]
Did you meet her?
Did you meet her when Trump hosted?
-I did, briefly, yes. She came to the dinner.
She didn't -- I don't remember her saying anything really.
She kind of -- She pointed at me when she walked in.
And then I think he said, "She likes your impression."
But I've heard through the grapevine
that she watches the show and she likes it.
-Oh, really? -And I feel like
she gives us little messages.
[ Laughter ] -She -- she speaks to you?
-That's how I feel. And a lot times --
Julio Torres writes a lot of the Melania things,
like "Melania Moments."
And he's really captured
the, like, curious icicle part of Melania.
And so, whenever, like,
when she decorated the White House for Christmas,
I thought that was a gift she gave to us.
[ Laughter ]
-That was bizarre. -Specifically.
-That was just for you guys. To go -- go run with it.
-And that white dress, staring at the ballerina.
That was for us. [ Laughter ]
And I was like, "Julio, if we don't act on this" --
-She's giving us messages.
-She's gonna stop giving us -- -Exactly, yeah.
-Yeah.
-Let's talk about your movie, "The Female Brain."
Directed by Whitney Cummings.
-Yes, who's so wonderful and she co-wrote it with Neal Brennan.
She stars in it. -Oh, she's a great comedian.
-She's amazing. -Great actor.
And it's a -- it's a very funny movie about --
-Yes, she plays a --
she's a scientist who studies male and female brains
and the movie centers around three couples.
And I'm one of the couples.
I'm newlywed and my husband is a basketball star.
He's Blake Griffin.
-Dude, he's great, by the way. [ Cheers and applause ]
-He's amazing. And he's really --
-Dude, Blake Griffin is super funny.
-And he's so funny. -Yeah, that's what
I was just saying. -He's not like --
I didn't have to just say that because I'm in the movie.
I can never go like, "Oh, no." -Yeah, no, yeah.
-He's actually very funny.
-Well, I want to show everyone a clip, it's very funny.
Here's Cecily Strong and Blake Griffin
in "The Female Brain." Take a look at this.
-You're gonna build a bathroom?
-Yeah. Just give me the tiles.
And the other items I will need.
-Building a bathroom takes skill.
You know, you have to, like, measure tiles.
So you -- -So?
I'm a physical marvel.
My hand-eye coordination is in the .01 percentile.
-Okay. -Try me.
Throw something at me. Anything.
Oh. Okay.
So I wasn't ready for that
because no one's ever thrown jelly.
-Did I -- So, I beat a physical marvel?
This is great. Well, now I can start my day.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-No ones thrown jelly.
-I was actually very nervous.
-Yeah, you were good. You nailed it.
-To throw the jelly. -You got it in one take there.
-Because I'm not a physical marvel.
-Cecily Strong, everybody.