Beats workin’ I guess.
Huh. I did not know that about her. I will say that back in the SNL days that I kind of thought she was hot, that’s about the extent of my willingness to consider her.
Right lady. Cause God knows, you didn’t get to where you are now in the public eye by working with any gay people in the entertainment industry whatsoever. :rolleyes:
I would say that the late '80s-mid '90s period was Saturday Night Live’s best run, hands down. Victoria Jackson and Dennis Miller did some good work on that show before they lost their minds.
They’ve had a few good years, but overall it’s been pretty hit-or-miss since the Hartman-Carvey-Myers era.
I’ll echo what others have said in that 1986-1992 was sort of a second golden age for them (their classic Bush, Clinton, Perot debate parody, for example, has to rate as one of the top five funniest things I’ve ever seen on television). But I can’t recall Victoria Jackson having any memorable recurring characters, other than just the general bubbleheaded bleached blonde archetype.
I did love her voice, though.
Miller didn’t really lose his mind as much as he became a pants-wetting conservative who gets the vapors just thinking about Islam and terrorism. Not the same level of crazy as Ms. Jackson, unless I missed something, because I’ve stopped caring about those two.
Part of me wonders if she just wants attention, or to fit in somewhere (anywhere). I actually quite liked her on SNL, but maybe (like so many ex cast members) she couldn’t find success outside the show. Or she got tired of celebrity. And now, as an aging actress who’s gained weight, she’s no longer wanted, and she’s simply trying to find a new schtick that works for her and makes her feel popular and wanted (by other crazies), even if she doesn’t believe it all. Or she’s just gone nuts.
she must be joking, right?
She’s been doing this long enough that it doesn’t really look like a joke.
This is true. I really disagree with Miller’s politics these days, but he is not a stupid man
Jackson is just a super-sized toddler whose momma used lead paint on the crib.
Ever hear the phrase “Fuck her brains out”. I think that’s what somebody literally did to her in the 80s.
Wikipedia says she grew up Christian, so it’s all she knows.
She said something about “I’m learning a lot from Glenn Beck!” so you know she just has no clue.
There seems to be a pattern to it. Conservatives rail about celebritards pushing their political views, but the fact that they cling to any celebritards they can get on their side betrays the pure jealousy behind their “Hollywood liberal” bloviations.
When Arnold Schwartzeneggar ran for governor of California, conservatives openly discussed how they could get around the “natural-born citizen” requirement for the presidency. Now of course none would dream of suggesting that the requirement is up for re-negotiation.
Some celebrities whose careers have gone down the crapper have found a home as conservative commentators – Dennis Miller, Norm MacDonald, Ben Stein. Some who never had talent to begin with nonetheless manage to lend the aura of celebrity to a conservative cause – Victoria Jackson, Stephen Baldwin, Kirk Cameron.
If you’re a washed-up celebrity and you miss being adored, start a wacko conservative blog. Conservatives are so desperate to bask in reflected celebrity glory that they’ll take anybody they’ve heard of and not only hire them for gigs, but kiss their asses. Wingnut conservatism is the new Branson, Missouri. It’s a second chance for the no-longer-relevant. In a world in which Oliver North can, with a straight face, excoriate other people for appeasing Muslim leaders or funneling money to terrorists, you’ve got an audience ready to believe that you’d totally be getting real work if those Hollywood liberal elites hadn’t blacklisted you.
Ben Stein? He was a Nixon apologist long before he became a media celebrity.
He got worse.
It’s actually not even a “first” for Glee – the scene in question was the show’s THIRD same-sex kiss and the second for the Kurt character. For fans of the show it’s kind of a big deal because it’s Kurt’s first consensual gay kiss (he was grabbed by a violent closet case earlier this season) and his first with the guy he’s been interested in for months, but two people of the same sex pressing their lips together has certainly been done before both on Glee and earlier TV shows.
I hear what your saying, but I am British and grew up with British tv where gays have been a bit more accepted for at least a good decade and a half. Hell, you can see a direct equivalence with Anna Friel’s lesbian kiss on the UK’s Brookside back in the middle of the nineties. In that sense US network TV is curiously anachronistic. From where I am standing Kurt’s entire character is a hideous stereotype, which is weird as it is being held up as something positive, whilst the other stereotypes on the show are not.
The Brittany-Santana kissing scene- which was much more graphic- hardly got a blip.
I’ve never seen this show, but are you serious - they actually have two characters named Brittany and Santana?
No.
Your otherwise-excellent question had some random clutter someone put in at the end so I took the liberty . . . [No offense meant to asterion, just pointing out that IMHO bad/unfunny/overly-topical content has always been rife if not predominant on the show, albeit perhaps not always the universal rule]