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Perhaps not since Andy Samberg has one person risen to the title of Your New Favorite Saturday Night Live Cast Member as swiftly as Kate McKinnon. And with good reason. From Justin Bieber impressions to skits like “Dyke & Fats” with her frequent partner-in-crime Aidy Bryant, she’s consistently knocked it out of the park during her time at 30 Rock.
More and more, though, McKinnon’s been showing that her skills stretch far beyond sketch comedy. Her appearance in the sports comedy Intramural, in which she plays “a bitch” named Vicky, has been playing film festivals throughout the spring and summer. Later this month, the Big Gay Sketch Show alum will make her debut in Seth Meyers’ animated superhero spoof The Awesomes on Hulu.
The show is packed with SNL vets like Bill Hader, Bobby Moynihan, Kenan Thompson, Amy Poehler, and now McKinnon, who voices Lola Gold, a TV producer/supervillain who tries to convince the rag-tag Awesomes superhero team to take part in a reality show. It’s a character she took to easily. “The script is so funny and you really don’t have to do much besides say the lines as written,” McKinnon says, humbly. “So I mostly just did that.” Luckily for all of us, the show (which posts new episodes each Monday) still gave McKinnon an opportunity to give Lola a unique McKinnon-esque voice. The comedienne crushed it on SNL this year (so much so that she got nominated for an Emmy) with characters like Russian woman Olga Povlatsky and German chancellor Angela Merkel (“oh, ze things I have Googled!”), and says that while the scripts for The Awesomes were fantastic, “there’s always a little bit of improv.” And that’s where McKinnon shines. Here are a few reasons she’s about to be comedy’s next big superheroine.
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