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Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant does Twitter Q&A

By Sun-Times Wire

via nbc.com

Hurry up, though. It’s starting NOW. 5 p.m. Central. Thursday. October 10. Former Chicago improviser Aidy Bryant, who was hired last fall, is taking over SNL’s official Twitter account @nbcsnl. Tweet her your Q’s and hashtag them #askaidy and she might tweet you some A’s back.

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