The Pat sketch, which appeared on “SNL” for the last time in 1994, garnered criticism in 2017 when “Transparent” creator Jill Solloway called it “a hateful, awful thing to do to ...

If success has many fathers and failure is an orphan, then It’s Pat must be the ... larger than its SNL skit origins. Best of all, perhaps because the original sketch made the MacGruber ...

Julia Sweeney’s “Pat” was a frequent and popular sketch star during the 1990s era of Saturday Night Live, but in recent years the character of indeterminate gender has come under criticism ...

“We were really making fun of the other people [in the sketches] not being able to ... Julia Sweeney says she took the criticism about her SNL character, Pat ‘to heart’ (ABC / NBC) When ...

Images courtesy of NBC & ABC SNL: Julia Sweeney "Took It to Heart" (Fan Criticism of Pat) The actress and comedienne ... but even when we were writing all the sketches. We were really making ...

“We were really making fun of the other people [in the sketches] not being able to handle ... Sweeney previously reflected on how Pat’s unspecified gender was the basis of jokes in SNL. During an ...

“We were really making fun of the other people [in the sketches] not being ... previously reflected on how Pat’s unspecified gender was the basis of jokes in SNL. During an interview with ...