Kate McKinnon has secured her spot in history as a comedic genius.
You’ve tuned intoSNLto see her spot-on impersonations of everyone fromHillary ClintontoJustin Bieber.
You’ve laughed until your guts hurt over her eccentric characters: the alien-abductedMrs.
Rafferty, the drunk and amorousSheila Sovage, the impossibly charismatic engineerDr.
But what about McKinnon?
What was the first of those jobs that ever netted McKinnon any cold hard cash?
Here’s a hint: Strike three you’re outta here!
For a brief moment in time, McKinnon made her money on a ball field.
I only lasted a few games because I wasn’t one hundred percent clear on all the rules."
“I would live in the woods and be a carpenter,” she toldMarie Claire.
“I already have my outfits picked out.”
In an interview withVanity Fair, she let it slip thatGillian Andersonwas her first crush.
In fact, said McKinnon, “[She]’s still my queen.”
Accordingly, fans lost their minds when Andersontweeteda photo of young McKinnon dressed as Anderson’sX-Files’persona Dana Scully.
The night before filming began, Anderson decided to Google her co-star.
“I felt this was the most intimate thing.
It was like we were Skyping.
I mean, what the f***?”
Anderson never mentioned the moment to McKinnon, and it was back to business as usual during filming.
As for Clinton, she confessed toPeoplethat occasionally McKinnon’s version of her causes self-doubt.
Lift my eyebrows?'"
She’s a self-professed super-fan of breakfast, tellingOprahmagazineit is her favorite meal of the day.
As far as breakfasts go, McKinnon is hooked on a pretty good one.
Good call, McKinnon.
Hillary Clinton, of course, is one.
But another favorite ofSNLviewers isMcKinnon’s impressionof beloved Supreme Court JusticeRuth Bader Ginsburg.
Now that would make for good television!
The movies she and her sis obsess over will make you say, Same!
There are certain movies that never grow tiresome, no matter how many times you watch them.
Kate McKinnon knows the deal.
“There was a lot of sketch comedy in the house.
They encouraged us to watch Mel Brooks movies, which was required viewing,” McKinnon toldRefinery29.
Oh, plus one more!
“I saw her.
But what about the people behind those hilarious videos?
What cracks them up?
“Nothing makes me laugh more than farting,” she said.
It’s the ultimate bad thing about being a person.”
However small it is, it’s there in the way they speak," McKinnon toldAmerican Way.
Commitment to her craft undoubtedly also contributes to her role as a linguistic chameleon.
Who wouldn’t get starstruck over this cast?
If you ran into Kate McKinnon walking down the street, you’d be understandably starstruck.
Nowalso a bona fide movie star, she’d make anyone nervous.
So it’s funny to think about the shoe being on the other foot.
Yes, McKinnon gets starstruck, too.
Instead, it washer co-stars.
Not surprisingly, McKinnon rose to the occasion and aced that challenge.
As for her co-stars?
According to McKinnon, they all “became a very close group.”
However, some comedians definitely cross the threshold from funny to mean.
For Kate McKinnon, though, that’s the last thing she wants to do.
That would really upset me."
