Characters like this are why 'SNL' star Kate McKinnon has won 2 Emmys in a row

She gets after it.
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The three alien abductees with wildly different experiences have returned to Earth -- and Saturday Night Live, reprising their first appearance from 2015. This time, at least poor Kate McKinnon gets a Ryan Gosling gropefest out of the deal.

Gosling and Cecily Strong returned to form as unassuming rednecks recounting blissful experiences of meeting beings from beyond the stars.

“One minute we’re drinking beer in a Kohl’s parking lot and it’s like, now we’re cosmic curiosities,” Strong said.

“Cookie crumbled a little different for me here,” McKinnon started.

“I’m hauled on board with my bush and my tush hanging out,” she added, before sharing in graphic detail the space exploration little grey men undertook on her own body.

“Shoppers storming a WalMart on Black Friday,” is how she characterized their investigation.

To demonstrate, McKinnon employed the rump of a perfectly amenable Gosling, much to the delight of literally everyone watching. It was all Gosling could do to compose himself to deliver his closing lines of the sketch.

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In case anyone was wondering, characters like this are why McKinnon has won two Emmys in a row.

 

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Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.

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