Jan Hooks

May 28, 2020

This quarantined week we are celebrating the legend that is the late, great Jan Hooks. You Might Know Her From Saturday Night Live, Designing Women, PeeWee’s Big Adventure, 30 Rock, and A Dangerous Woman. Anne and Damian break down their favorite Jan sketches from SNL, Jan’s penchant for musical comedy, and the film she made with Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, and Laurie Metcalf!

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Discussed this week: 

Damian’s skin disease: Meluscum, PLEVA

Hand slapping face disease = “SLAP CHEEK” aka fifth disease or parvovirus B19

Jan Hooks (1957-2014)

Her time on SNL: 1986-1991 bridged Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, to Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Mike Myers

Our fave Jan sketches: Mary Jo Buttafucco, Bette Davis’ Video Will, Tammy Faye Bakker, The Sweeney Sisters (Christmas Medley arranged by Marc Shaiman) 

Tina Fey used her stage time at Elle's Women in Hollywood Awards to remember Jan Hooks, her “idol” and Saturday Night Live forebearer 

Tina mentioned the Miss Self Esteem Pageant w/ Melanie Griffith

Replaced Sarah Jessica Parker in the Broadway play, Sylvia 

Barbra Streisand and Mariah Carey have horrible stage fright

Jan Hooks on Victoria Jackson 

Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Coneheads, Batman Returns

A Dangerous Woman = Riding the Bus with My Sister + The Other Sister + Nell

Linda Bloodworth Thomason created Designing Women 

Jan’s character in Designing Women was Carlene (Charlene’s sister)

Annie Potts is hot! She went to Stephens College (so did Jennifer Tilly!)

Long time listener, Colleen has been recommending we get into Julia Duffy

Neither of us watched Third Rock from the Sun. Distressing clip of Jan Hooks eating chicken (actually turkey) off French Stewart’s head

Playing Dixie, Jiminy Glick’s wife in Primetime Glick

Movie Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood is bad but has some good bits

The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show (where Jan plays Brett Butler, Rosie Perez, Faye Dunaway, and Whoopi)

Tina Fey campaigned for Jan to play Verna Maroney (Jenna’s mom) on 30 Rock

After 9/11 Jan moved to Woodstock, New York

Recommend this great GRANTLAND piece on the anniversary of Jan’s death

With Alec Baldwin on SNL who she later co=starred w/ on 30 Rock

Tina Fey puts Jan on her dream cast of SNL

Jan singing “I Didn’t Evolve from You “ as Kathie Lee Gifford