10 Actors Who Need To Go Away For A While

By Jack Pooley /

7. Kate McKinnon

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Kate McKinnon is absolutely hysterical on Saturday Night Live, but her cinematic output had sadly been decidedly less consistent (and much more annoying).

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She is, in fairness, a relative newcomer to movies, making her mark with her scene-stealing appearance in Ghostbusters, but ever since she's basically just rehashed the same self-consciously quirky, over-affected shtick.

She was especially irritating in last year's animated romp Ferdinand - where she played a motormouth goat - and this past summer's The Spy Who Dumped Me. Considering that both under-performed at the box office, it seems that general audiences aren't much fussed by her.

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McKinnon obviously has talent, but it'd be nice to see her funnel it into different strains of comedy (and maybe even drama), rather than the same warmed-over weirdo act every damn time. If not, she risks leaving herself over-exposed.