A Lot Of People Cried During SNL's Farewell To Kristen Wiig
May 20, 2012, 2:25 p.m.
Kristen Wiig wasn't the only one tearing up last night as she was given an emotional farewell by the SNL cast and crew—below, take a look at a small sampling of this outpouring of grief.
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Kristen Wiig wasn't the only one tearing up last night as she was given an emotional farewell by the Saturday Night Live cast and crew (you can watch the segment below)—a lot of people had a salty discharge escaping their eye holes, and a whole lot of them put pictures on their Tumblr or tweeted about it. Seriously, just take a look at a small sampling of this outpouring of grief below:
Oh my God I'm crying with this goodbye to Kristen Wiig
— Laura Aimee Saladin (@laura_salad) May 20, 2012
Seriously crying during this goodbye thing about Kristen Wiig
— Rachel Speer (@raaachelmaine) May 20, 2012
arcade fire singing bye to kristen wiig i'm crying
— gracie m (@grrraciecat) May 20, 2012
Yup. I'm crying about Kristen Wiig.
— realhorrorshow (@realhorrorshow) May 20, 2012
LITERALLY CRYING AT KRISTEN WIIG'S LAST SKIT @TonyTJrivera @BridgeGleason
— Madelyn Carter (@madddogcarrter) May 20, 2012
Ok, I'm crying. Goodbye Kristen Wiig! #SNL
— Spencer Johnson (@cyspence) May 20, 2012
Oh my god. Kristen Wiig is crying. And so am I. This was her last show. This is just so...wrong.
— DB (@devonbarrett) May 20, 2012
I just want to confess to the world that I am crying as SNL says goodbye to Kristin Wiig...waaaah...
— Karen Workun (@karenworkun) May 20, 2012
Crying like a baby because Kristen Wiig isn't going to be on SNL anymore.
— Julie Lipyanka (@lipyanker) May 20, 2012
im really upset over Kristen Wiig's departure. i actually started crying.
— Aimee Goldstein (@luscioustache) May 20, 2012
I keep watching the #SNL Kristen Wiig send-off finale from last night, and I keep crying every time. Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday.
— Stephanie Ammons (@StephanieAmmons) May 20, 2012
Totally crying right now SNL will never be the same without Kristin Wiig who I deeply admire. Here's to the future Kristin!
— Melanie (@GottaMeetDianna) May 20, 2012
That ending of SNL last night with Kristin Wiig was perfect & tear jerking. I couldn't stop crying. I'm never deleting this off DVR.#SNL
— Michael Buckley(@buckhollywood) May 20, 2012
I'm gonna throw up. That was Kristen wiig's last SNL episode. Why didn't they tell us?! She was totally crying. This is horrible.
— Rye Bread (@RyanDelFranco) May 20, 2012
Everyone in the current cast—including Lorne Michaels—got a chance to dance with Wiig as host Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire played Rolling Stones classics "She's A Rainbow" and "Ruby Tuesday." It started out as a graduation-themed sketch, but Wiig was quickly in tears. Amy Poehler, Chris Kattan, Jon Hamm, Will Forte, Steve Martin, Chris Parnell and Rachel Dratch were all on hand for the send-off as well. It definitely seems that it worked as a tearjerker.
It's still not clear whether this is also the last we've seen of Andy Samberg (if so, he went out with two big Digital Shorts in as many weeks) and Jason Sudekis (who seemed more broken up by Wiig's farewell than anyone on stage). Michaels recently said any decision on cast changes will wait until the summer.
