TMZ just reported her death at age 57. Loved the Sweeney Sisters.
Too many funny people gone from the world recently.
Me too. The Sweeney Sisters is my all-time favorite recurring SNL sketch, and that’s saying something.
RIP Jan.
Damn! It was she who taught me that there is no basement at the Alamo!
RIP.
Very sad. Her era of SNL was the comedy I grew up with. I remember it very fondly.
Well buenos dias!
a-dob-ee!
Real ma-ture!
She was 57? Damn, she looked good for her age. Except for the being dead part.
What happens in the trailer Stays in the trailer. :eek:
There are a bunch of SNL clips on Yahoo Screen. I recently saw one she was in called “Jew Jeans” that had me rolling. RIP.
I believe Phil Hartman and her were close. Both gone.
She was underrated during a very good time on SNL. I thought she was hilarious.
the early Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon.
Any cause of death reported yet? I’m fearing suicide or accidental overdose. She looked kind of rough in recent years.
I thought I read “long illness”.
I loved her. I never understood why she didn’t have a bigger career.
She did a sketch called “Miss Self Esteem” in which her character is a talentless drama queen who performs a scene from Ibsen as the talent portion of a pageant. It was one of the funniest things ever on SNL. The sketch wasn’t that funny because it had Victoria Jackson in it (Hooks LOATHED her- another reason to like Hooks) but those few seconds were perfection. Wish I could find a video.
Melanie Griffith hosted, and was the third contestant. It was great. Actually, it was pretty good use of Victoria Jackson as the woman with no self-esteem who entered because her boyfriend told her to.
Jewess jeans was Gilda Radner. 
Here are six hours of her sketches.
The very first one, Brenda The Waitress with Alec Baldwin, is my very favorite.
Nothing officially released as a cause, but some stories attribute her death to a non-specific illness (and no details as to if it was a long/sudden/whatever). She obviously wasn’t known to be sick ahead of this.
I was fortunate enough to see her onstage in A.R. Gurney’s “Sylvia” in the mid-90s. She played the role brilliantly, she was wonderful onstage. She’s really someone who should have always been booking much more work than she did.
“Love Is a Dream” was popularly used as a tribute when Phil Hartman died. I believe it is fitting to also use it as a tribute to Jan Hooks.
I still remember her from the old Bill Tush Show on WTBS here in Atlanta:
Jan Hooks as Tammy Jean in an early appearance.
Reportedly the Bill Tush show got cancelled because Ted Turner didn’t “get it.”