Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on "Saturday Night Live."

[beautywickedlover]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on "Saturday Night Live."#1

Posted: 5/3/11 at 2:39pm

Entertainment Weekly has reported that Kristin Wiig will retire her Penelope and Gilly characters on "Saturday Night Live." I actually think it's funny when she plays those characters. My favorite Penelope moment was during the Taylor Swift episode. Are you all glad to see her retire these characters or will you miss them?
Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on SNL.

[CyCoSpAz2]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#2

Posted: 5/3/11 at 2:49pm

glad to see Gilly go, but not Penelope. Penelope always reminded me of some of my friends who constantly try to one-up everything ANYONE says, and it never failed to make me laugh.

[Tom1071]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#2

Posted: 5/3/11 at 2:55pm

I never found Gilly particularly funny anyway.

[SNAFU]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#3

Posted: 5/3/11 at 2:58pm

I was hoping she would retire from SNL.... oh well.. baby steps.

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[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#4

Posted: 5/3/11 at 3:43pm

I like Gilly. I still miss the A-holes that she and Jason Sudekis used to do, Babe.

[doodlenyc]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#5

Posted: 5/3/11 at 3:46pm

All SNL characters have a shelf life. Gilly has never been funny to me, and Penelope was only funny once or twice. I did like the Target lady and her Garland is funny.

I think it's odd that this deserves an anouncement.

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[brdlwyr]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#6

Posted: 5/3/11 at 3:54pm

I love Kristin and Gilly is a regular character in our house!

[Gothampc]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#7

Posted: 5/3/11 at 4:22pm

Gilly should have been retired after the first appearance. The character was never funny.

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[FindingNamo]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#8

Posted: 5/3/11 at 4:45pm

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[jasonf]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#9

Posted: 5/3/11 at 7:20pm

One step closer to getting her off SNL...

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[beautywickedlover]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#10

Posted: 5/3/11 at 10:03pm

"I did like the Target lady and her Garland is funny."

Those are great. I also really like her Elizabeth Hasselbeck and Nancy Pelosi impersonations.

[JP2]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#11

Posted: 5/4/11 at 12:33am

It's not really Gilly that's funny, but the sketch worked because of Will Forte. Now that Forte is gone, the sketch is pointless. I think they've tried it once since he left and it's just not the same.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#12

Posted: 5/4/11 at 10:50am

Bring back the Two A-Holes!!!

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[beautywickedlover]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#13

Posted: 5/4/11 at 2:46pm

I also love her impression of Kathie Lee Gifford. However, she doesn't get to do it as often anymore because the two women who would play Hoda Kotb alongside her have been fired.

[StockardFan]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#14

Posted: 5/4/11 at 7:00pm

I always sort of found Gilly annoying.

KFTC!!!!!

[choitoy]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#15

Posted: 5/6/11 at 8:29pm

Gilly (and most of Kristin Wiig's other characters) were just built around the annoyance factor. They are almost all the same architype and thus, all her "characters" really seem the same to me. To put her in the same sentence as Dana Carvey and Mike Meyers, who truly found different characters (and caricatures of real life people) is just plain wrong.

The only thing that I really enjoyed was her Kathy Lee Gifford, and the only time when the whole annoyance thing makes sense.

I did find the Penelope character amusing, but only sometimes.

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[Bettyboy72]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#16

Posted: 5/6/11 at 9:11pm

"Gilly (and most of Kristin Wiig's other characters) were just built around the annoyance factor. They are almost all the same architype and thus, all her "characters" really seem the same to me. To put her in the same sentence as Dana Carvey and Mike Meyers, who truly found different characters (and caricatures of real life people) is just plain wrong."

Her characters all seem to have the same voice, same expressions, and mannerisms, just different wigs. I do enjoy her, but she is highly overrated. The only character I really enjoyed was Suze Orman.

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[AwesomeDanny]

Kristin Wiig to retire Gilly and Penelope characters on 'Saturday Night Live.'#17

Posted: 5/6/11 at 9:25pm

I'm honestly thrilled to hear that GIlly is gone! It's just painful to sit through. It's even painful to look at the screen while fast-forwarding through the skit. I never understood the appeal of the skit. I completely agree that basically all of Kristin Wiig's characters are the same, and this one is the most annoying.