Julia Sweeney says she still gets “a lot of s**t” for her “Pat” character on “Saturday Night Live”. “Pat”, an androgynous person whose not-so-obvious gender made people around her uncomfortable, was one of the show’s most popular recurring skits in the early 1990s.
Thirty years on, and in the current climate, the 61-year-old says that while she’s criticized for the character, she never intended for ‘Pat’ to be hurtful or offensive. “In my mind, I was actually trying to explore how uncomfortable not having a gender was for the people around that person,” she tells Page Six. “That was the joke of it.
But also, Pat was conventionally unattractive and intentionally gross — so I definitely got laughs on that.” RELATED: Norm Macdonald Recalls The
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