SAD NEWS FOLKS:

“SNL” Star Jan Hooks Dead at 57
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Jan Hooks, who appeared on the veteran NBC late night sketch comedy regularly from 1986 to 1991 (and periodically from 1991 to 1994) died yesterday of an undisclosed illness. She was 57 and is also fondly remembered for her stint on the final two seasons of CBS sitcom “Designing Women” from 1991 to 1993.

Born on April 23, 1957 in Decatur, Georgia, Hooks began her career as a member of the Los Angeles-based comedy troupe The Groundlings and in an Atlanta nightclub act called The Wits End Players. She gained early notoriety on HBO satirical comedy “Not Necessarily the News” from 1983-84, and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for NBC’s “3rd Rock From the Sun” in 1998. More recently, Hooks made two appearances of NBC’s “30 Rock” in 2010, and lent her voice to six episodes of “The Simpsons.” Film credits include “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure,” “Coneheads” and appearing with “SNL” alum Martin Short in “Jiminy Glick in Lalawood.”

The news of Hook’s passing comes just three months after the death of her “Designing Women” co-star Meshach Taylor in June. Dixie Carter, also a regular on “Designing Women,” died in 2010.

What?????????? Oh how sad way too young R.I.P.

So sad! She was an excellent actress and comedianne.

What A Funny Lady...RIHP.

RIP Jan Hooks. One of my favorite female SNL and under used SNL women.

Jan plays a Mom in this skit:

http://tadleckman.wordpre...les-court/

Very talented artist.

It is hard to believe we've lost so many greats this year, thinking back on Robin Williams and Joan Rivers. Now this! Jan Hooks was so funy on 'SNL' - and it is sad to hear that she has died. I hope that the show will pay some kind of trubute to her on Saturday by replaying one of her skits. Sure Sweeney Sisters and Tammy Faye Baker were funny, but this "Brenda the Waitress" sketch is a classic I'll never forget.

In this sketch, she tells her diner co-worker (played by Nora Dunn) that hunky Alec Baldwin just sat down on the stool "like he was doin' it a favor" and the innuendos don't stop there. It's not a youtube link, so I am not sure how to post it here without you having to click it open, but here it is. Please watch it and remember Jan Hooks for how entertaining she truly was!

https://screen.yahoo.com/brenda-waitress-000000407.html

R.I.P. Jan - you will be missed!

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I'm not sure why, but this bums me out more than almost any other celebrity death in the recent past. Maybe I had a boyhood crush on her or something. But I was gripped by terrible sadness whenI read this yeaterday & still feel it. RIP Jan, I miss you.

Peace to her family and Kevin Nealon who was her boyfriend at one time.

She was one of the best all-around SNL cast members. So funny in so many skits, including "The Sweeney Sisters."

Damn SNL and their stinginess with skits. They're worse than Prince!
Anybody got a video of the classic Greta Garbo sketch with Daniel Baldwin?

what no sticky? guess she is not popular enough?

loved her in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

and wasn't she part of the last SNL cast to actually have talent?

3rdeyedude said:

what no sticky? guess she is not popular enough?

loved her in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

and wasn't she part of the last SNL cast to actually have talent?

I dunno, the Wiig, Armisen, Hader, Forte, etc. cast was pretty damn funny.

7thday said:

3rdeyedude said:

what no sticky? guess she is not popular enough?

loved her in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

and wasn't she part of the last SNL cast to actually have talent?

I dunno, the Wiig, Armisen, Hader, Forte, etc. cast was pretty damn funny.

7thday said:

3rdeyedude said:

what no sticky? guess she is not popular enough?

loved her in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

and wasn't she part of the last SNL cast to actually have talent?

I dunno, the Wiig, Armisen, Hader, Forte, etc. cast was pretty damn funny.

They were good, but given the amount of good work they're putting out post-SNL, the sum of the parts is proving much greater than the whole.