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Shirley Please
Played by Josh O'Connor
Shirley Please is the braided, blood-spattered intern in a Saturday Night Live teaching-hospital sketch, played by Josh O'Connor. Told to deliver a patient's results, Shirley takes the supervising doctor's lessons literally and turns out…
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Shirley Please is the braided, blood-spattered intern in a Saturday Night Live teaching-hospital sketch, played by Josh O'Connor. Told to deliver a patient's results, Shirley takes the supervising doctor's lessons literally and turns out to share his surname, Please.
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