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" Cecily Strong, 30  Twitter: @CecilyBecily Favorite host? It&amp;#039;s hard to choose. Kristen [Wiig], Tina [Fey], and Melissa [McCarthy]. I&amp;#039;m speechless around them. Your boyfriend is SNL&amp;#039;s Mike O&amp;#039;Brien. Any concerns about dating a coworker? Absolutely. It&amp;#039;s probably stupid. But I got the okay from my dad, who is a business professional. It happens. The good thing is I never feel like I&amp;#039;m complaining or talking about my job too much. You&amp;#039;re a household name now. How do you deal? Therapy! It&amp;#039;s hard when you&amp;#039;re thrust into the spotlight. We write 40 scenes every week, and maybe 6 of them make the live show. There&amp;#039;s a lot of &amp;quot;Am I not funny?&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s easy to feel overwhelmed and lose your confidence. Props for calling out the &amp;quot;cruel bully dickheads&amp;quot; on Twitter who suggested you were pregnant. Why did you do it? I felt like I was betraying myself not to say anything. I thought of myself as a 12-year-old. I&amp;#039;ve never had a hot bod or been seen that way. I didn&amp;#039;t want to make it a big deal, but it was nice to feel support from other girls. Boys get it too. It&amp;#039;s not even just a girl issue. Celebrity spirit animal? I love Amy Sedaris so much. I feel like I could have been a part of the Sedaris family. T-shirt, Obesity and Speed, $125; shorts, Hanro of Switzerland, $148; shoes, Bess NYC, $220; stole, Adrienne Landau Kate McKinnon, 30  What always makes you laugh? The sounds that goats and sheep make when they scream like men. I cannot keep myself together when I hear that. You do a killer Justin Bieber. What would you say to him right now? I&amp;#039;d get very serious with him and say, &amp;quot;You are good. Hang in there, pal. I love you. You have a core of goodness.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s a failproof source of material for you? Weird people doing shit. Like local news stories of a woman wearing hamburger shoes or just people behaving strangely. Favorite sketch? My favorite thing to do is play the character who makes out with people at the bar. I love fake, gross kissing. I&amp;#039;ve kissed Vince Vaughn and John Goodman. Louis C.K. was great. He was the first, but they were all great in their own ways. It takes a special man to put himself in that situation. Robe, $495, nightgown, $695, Josie Natori; shoes, Alejandro Ingelmo, $650; necklace, Kate&amp;#039;s own Aidy Bryant, 26  Twitter: @AidyBryant When did you realize you were funny? Funny was very valued in my house. My parents are both very funny, and my brother has great timing. I started doing children&amp;#039;s theater, and when I found out about improv and sketch, I was like, &amp;quot;Oh, this is my jam.&amp;quot; You tweeted that Drake was the best after he hosted. Why? I love him. He&amp;#039;s the nicest dude. He felt like one of us all week, which was such a pleasant surprise because, come on, it&amp;#039;s Drake! He has so much swagger. It was refreshing to say, &amp;quot;Oh, he&amp;#039;s just like our bud!&amp;quot; What do you do on your one day off? I will watch any garbage that&amp;#039;s on TV. I watch all the Real Housewives \u2014 all cities. I know their husbands&amp;#039; names; I know their dogs&amp;#039; names. I know too much about these women. What would you say to a person who thinks girls aren&amp;#039;t as funny as guys? You&amp;#039;re wrong. All you need to do is watch Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig, or any of the girls in the cast right now. You&amp;#039;re a damn fool if you think girls can&amp;#039;t hang with guys on the funny front. Robe, Kumi Kookoon, $257; nightgown, Hanro of Switzerland, $118; shoes, Jacques Levine, $98; all jewelry, Aidy&amp;#039;s own Sasheer Zamata, 27  Twitter: @TheSheerTruth When did you realize you were funny? I did a speech for Hoosier Girls State, in Indiana. I put one joke at the top of my speech, and people laughed really hard. I was like, Man, I want to do this all the time. There was a lot of buzz about your casting. What&amp;#039;s your take? I&amp;#039;m just glad to be hired, honestly. I do love being black \u2014 it is a part of my life and identity, but as far as work goes, I&amp;#039;m a comedian. They hired me because I&amp;#039;m a comedian. Do you feel pressure to represent black women a certain way? I don&amp;#039;t. I also don&amp;#039;t know if black women see me and are like, &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s representing all of us.&amp;quot; All I&amp;#039;m doing is telling jokes. I&amp;#039;m not making legal decisions for them. I do want little girls to watch the show and think they could do what I&amp;#039;m doing. That&amp;#039;d be awesome. What always makes you laugh? Nicole Byer (from MTV&amp;#039;s Girl Code). She&amp;#039;s the funniest person in the world. Dream host? Beyonc\u00E9. If she could grace the studio with her presence, everything would be right in the world. Robe, Christine Lingerie, $410; bra, Parfait, $38; brief, Panache, $48; (on statue) bra, Gap, $39.50 Nasim Pedrad, 32  Instagram: @NasimPedrad When did you first realize you were funny? I used my sense of humor to fit in at school. It was a form of currency with the popular crowd. Having foreign parents and a weird name didn&amp;#039;t help. What I had going for me was I could make people laugh. Do you feel a responsibility to raise the bar for women in comedy? I&amp;#039;d like to think that we are past the point of debate over how funny women can be. I feel a responsibility to make sure there are things on the show that represent what women are thinking. I can probably write a more accurate birth-control parody than a guy writer from The Harvard Lampoon. Although those guys can surprise you sometimes. What does your Sunday look like after a show? It depends on how late you were at the afterparty. Worst-case scenario: You wake up around 5 p.m., order Chinese food, shovel it down, watch 30 minutes of TV, and go to sleep again. What always makes you laugh? My 90-year-old Iranian grandmother. She just doesn&amp;#039;t give a shit anymore. She delivers the best burns I&amp;#039;ve ever heard in the shortest amount of words. Dream host? At the risk of sounding obvious and like such a girl, Leonardo DiCaprio. He&amp;#039;s never hosted, and he&amp;#039;s such a huge star! Camisole, $135, shorts, $135, Christine Lingerie; shoes, Sophia Webster (see page 181), $395; all jewelry, Nasim&amp;#039;s own No\u00EBl Wells, 27  Twitter: @RealTomHankz When did you realize you were funny? My family moved a lot, often in the middle of the school year, and I would have to make new friends. If you&amp;#039;re making fun of yourself, then people are like, &amp;quot;Oh, she&amp;#039;s okay.&amp;quot; As I got older, I wanted to become a politician. Why did you give up the political dream? I don&amp;#039;t know if I have! But I think comedy is a more effective way of getting a message out. If we can all laugh at something, we can also see a bigger picture. You were once a magician&amp;#039;s assistant. What did that entail? I would get sawed in half or flail around in a little dance. I know lots of magic secrets, but it would be a dick move for me to share. What would you say to a person who thinks girls aren&amp;#039;t as funny as guys? My opinion is that there is one in a thousand people who thinks that and 999 people know better. It&amp;#039;s not even worth addressing. One person can think the president is a lizard, but do you engage that person? I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s worth it. Vanessa Bayer, 32  When did you realize you were funny? Middle school or high school. I had a lot of fun impersonating teachers or ordering catalogs with weird voices. There was one catalog that had jewelry exclusively made of cubic zirconia that I used to call and place an order in a Southern accent. Favorite host? Kerry Washington hosted this season, and I just loved her to pieces. Everyone did. All the girls wanted to be best friends with her. It&amp;#039;s crazy. You meet these hosts and they&amp;#039;re so great, and then they have to leave at the end of the week. It&amp;#039;s sad. Your Miley Cyrus is spot-on She&amp;#039;s hosted twice since you&amp;#039;ve been on the show \u2014 are you guys friends now? I&amp;#039;d like to think we are. She was so great. It takes a really cool person to embrace a parody version of themself the way that she has. Dream host? I would love to have Claire Danes host and Thirty Seconds to Mars (fronted by Jared Leto) be the musical guest. It would be a My So-Called Life show. What always makes you laugh? Home-shopping networks. There&amp;#039;s something about them that I think is so funny. The women are mesmerizing. I always turn it on, and my friends are like, &amp;quot;Why are we watching this?&amp;quot; It just makes me giggle. Robe, Ari Dein, $460; camisole, Cami NYC, $158; pajama pants, Victoria&amp;#039;s Secret, $69.50 Hair: Zaiya Latt for the Stephen Knoll Salon. (Vanessa Bayer) Andrew Fitzsimons using Oribe at ABTP. Makeup: Tina Turnbow using Lanc\u00F4me at Crosby Carter Management. Manicure: Roseann Singleton using Chanel La Vernis. Set design: Shawn Patrick Anderson at Bridge Artists. This article was originally published as &amp;quot;Hot and Hilarious: It&amp;#039;s An SNL Sleepover!&amp;quot; in the May 2014 issue of Cosmopolitan. Click here to get the issue in the iTunes store! RELATED: Anna Kendrick Totally Auditioned For The Little Mermaid This Weekend 13 Funny Women to Watch in 2014 Judy Greer On What It&amp;#039;s Like To Pee With Big Celebrities Photo credit: Robert Trachtenberg "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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