Cecily Strong's defense of abortion rights as a clown on SNL's "Weekend Update" was bizarre and brilliant

The Daily Beast

"The segment is as bizarre as it is brilliant—and as wacky as the bit gets, Strong’s performance remains furious throughout," Laura Bradley says of Strong's portrayal of Goober the Clown, who had a "clown abortion" at age 23 -- a sketch that won praise on Twitter. Bradley adds: "Strong used the absurdity of her concept and manic quality of her performance to underscore some sobering facts: 'Did you know that one in three clowns will have an abortion in her lifetime?' she asked. 'You don’t, because they don’t tell you. They don’t even know how to talk to other clowns about it, because when they do talk about it, if you were a clown who wasn’t the victim of something sad like clown-cest, they think your clown abortion wasn’t a 'righteous clown abortion.' I mean, what the dick is that?!'"