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SNL 50 : Julia Sweeney reflect on the confident and minus feedback received from the LGBTQ+ residential area for her popular SNL character , " Pat . "
Julia Sweeney’smost memorable fictional character is still her most controversial after 30 years . Pat Riley , named after the fabled NBA coach and executive director , is androgynous by pattern , and the confusion over identifying the character ’s sexuality created uproar in the LGBTQ community of interests despite the popularity . Appearing on ABC’sThe Viewas part of the upcomingSNL50anniversary special featuring the women ofSNL , Sweeney spoke on the criticism that Pat was a charade of trans and nonbinary mass .
SNL: Julia Sweeney “Took It to Heart” (Fan Criticism of Pat)
The actress and comedienne , who appeared from 1990 - 1994 , admits she put a lot of " thinking " into the Pat literary criticism , " Much later , there was some criticism of it , but Pat is n’t trans or nonbinary . Pat is a gentleman or a cleaning woman , but you just do n’t know which Pat is . That is the joke , but I did understand the literary criticism , and I took it to philia and thought about it a lot , but even when we were writing all the sketch . We were really take a crap sport of the other multitude [ in the sketches ] not being able to handle the fact that they could n’t tell . The laughs all amount from that . But then , of track , when you ’re defending your joke , as we know , you ’ve already lose them . "
Sweeney carry on retrieve what touch off the revisit , " I really feel very positive about it , " she said . " There ’s a docudrama that got made , and it ’s gon na come out this next year . And there ’s a lot of trans - comedy writer in LA that were urge by Pat , that have it away Pat . I ’ve been interviewed for three old age for this documentary , and it was like therapy for me . I was like , yeah , Pat , that was a good melodic theme … I love Pat now . "
The " Pat " sketches put Sweeney in a short curly wig , blue dress shirt , farseeing pants , and thick meth , adapting quirky noise , bivalent entendres , and nerdy look as those around Sweeney ’s character endeavor to devise ways to determine the character ’s grammatical gender . The study ' popularity ensue in a 1994 Disney film under their Buena Vista Pictures banner calledIt ’s Pat , directed byAdam Bernstein , written by Sweeney ( who also starred),Jim Emerson , andStephen Hibbert , which , unfortunately , bombed in the box role . It would be the first of twoSNL - related films to asterisk distaff cast members , with 1999’sSuperstarstarringMolly Shannonbeing the sec . For more , you could mark off out thevideo . SNL 50airs on February 16th on NBC .
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