Work in Progress Redeems Saturday Night Live's Traumatic 'Pat' Character

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Work in Progress Redeems Saturday Night Live's Traumatic 'Pat' Character
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is a loosely fictionalized version of the foibles of Abby McEnany, a 45-year-old Chicago improv scene stalwart who identifies as a “queer fat dyke” and, in the first episode, struggles with mental health hurdles that include lining up 180 almonds gifted to her by a “fuckin’ bitch” at work. If her life doesn’t improve by the 180th almond, she tells her therapist, she is going to take her own life.

The date is where the show gets even more awkwardly funny, and becomes transformative for an entire generation ofviewers who could never figure out why Julia Sweeney’s ambiguously gendered “Pat” character was supposedly so funny. As Abby and Chris begin their date at a bar, Abby realizes that the real-life Julia Sweeney is sitting across the room, having a beverage and reading a book. Abby explains to Chris that Pat—“who nobody could tell was a man or a woman...

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