Catherine Annette "Cathy Ann" Che (nee Vanderbilt): is a recurring character performed by Cecily Strong.
SNL[]
Cathy Ann appeared on ''Weekend Update'', introduced by Michael Che as "the woman who's always yelling outside my window". On Weekend Update December 9, 2017, Cathy Ann announced that she was engaged to the Weekend Update Anchor Michael Che (this was not referring to the marital status of her actress Cecily Strong).
On Weekend Update January 26, 2019, Cathy Ann announced that her name was "Catherine Annette Vanderbilt". Annette may be a nod to Annette "Leslie" Jones, a fellow SNL actor, since it is her birth name but she goes by the stage name "Leslie".
Her birthday is February 8th, sharing her birthday date with her actress Cecily Strong. On February 8, 2020 SNL Weekend Update sketch, she joked that she was turning 21, likely a reference to the fact that the same day, her actress, Cecily Strong, celebrated her 36th birthday.
She next appeared on Update on January 30, 2021, talking about COVID-19 and the Jan. 6 Insurrection.
The character last appeared on December 17, 2022, as a farewell to Strong, who left the show following this episode. She was talking about how she would go to 'jail' for a while due to all the things she's told Che over the years, but isn't worried due to the fact that she has some buddies waiting for her in "prison" (followed by a picture of Strong's former longtime castmates Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon), she then slightly breaks character and delivers a goodbye message to the audience. She then mentions that she and Colin Jost did Weekend Update together and brought up a picture of when they really were doing Update together. Strong (back in character as Cathy-Ann) then sings a brief parody of My Way, titled, "I did it high, Che" (likely a reference to the fact that she already sang this song for the Season 46 finale, and people assumed she was leaving then).
Trivia[]
- She talks about drugs a lot
- She use to live temporarily with a friend, a troll, under his bridge
- She announced that all Nazis are bad in response to the controversy over Donald Trump's remarks after Charlottesville 2015
- She has never truly lit the cigarette she always appears with; this is not-uncommon behavior of people who become extremely social and talkative while under the influence of stimulating drugs
- She screams outside Che's window frequently
- Her brother figure is a troll, portrayed by James Franco
- She speaks about currently being a drug addict, however it is more likely that she's a former drug addict
- She is a parody of the redneck American stereotype
- Her surname is Che having married the character "Michael Che"
- She is a Vanderbilt
- On January 27, 2019 Michael Che introduced her as "the love of my life and the lady that's always screaming outside my window, Cathy Ann"
- She was supposedly blinded by the 2017 eclipse as a parody of Donald Trump looking into the sun during the eclipse
- She does not like Donald Trump
- She likes Michelle Obama
- In one appearance she stated that one of her eyes was glass
- She has had various issues with fast food restaurants. She said she had "burned some bridges at Wendy's," was fired from Pizza Hut for reasons unstated, was forced to resign from Waffle House for stealing syrup, and held an Arby's bathroom 'hostage' before being forced to leave because "a smoke bomb [thrown] through the window caught [her] jeans on fire"
- She was dead for a combined 39 minutes in 2017
- She is likely responsible for multiple clogged toilets in Michael Che's apartment.
- She has been charged with multiple felony and federal crimes including drug possession (crack and meth)
- As of December 17, 2022, the character is in jail, due to all the crimes she confessed on Weekend Update.