Meanwhile, a third said: “I can’t believe Meryl Streep’s first appearance ever on SNL was tonight playing Kate McKinnon's mom and telling Pedro Pascal she could be a bad girl.”.
Another asked: “Meryl Streep makes her first ever appearance on SNL and flirts with Pedro Pascal in a sketch for #SNL50.
Another person said: “I hope Meryl Streep wins an Emmy for playing Kate McKinnon's mom in the alien abduction sketch.”.
Streep’s first SNL appearance was in the recurring “Close Encounters” sketch, in which Pentagon officials, played by Jon Hamm and Aidy Bryant, interview characters who claim to have been abducted by aliens.
Woody Harrelson and Pedro Pascal joined Streep in the sketch, where she played the mother of Kate McKinnon’s Colleen Rafferty, who often regales her explicit rendezvous with extraterrestrials.
