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A face you won’t forget
Colleen Rafferty
Played by Kate McKinnon
Kate McKinnon’s recurring, cigarette-smoking friend in SNL’s Close Encounter sketches, also addressed as Ms. Rafferty. Her blunt accounts of alien abductions and other supernatural experiences contrast with her companions’ uplifting…
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Kate McKinnon’s recurring, cigarette-smoking friend in SNL’s Close Encounter sketches, also addressed as Ms. Rafferty. Her blunt accounts of alien abductions and other supernatural experiences contrast with her companions’ uplifting stories. Christmas Miracle sends her to the reindeer stables instead of Santa’s workshop.
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