# RIP Jan Hooks
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 9, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904 "2014-10-09T21:59:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@RickG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickG)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/1 "2014-10-09T21:59:30Z")
[TMZ](http://www.tmz.com/2014/10/09/jan-hooks-dead-dies-snl/) just reported her death at age 57. Loved the Sweeney Sisters.
Too many funny people gone from the world recently.
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### Author:  [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/2 "2014-10-09T22:04:23Z")
> [@RickG](#):
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> Loved the Sweeney Sisters.
☹ Me too. The Sweeney Sisters is my all-time favorite recurring SNL sketch, and that’s saying something.
RIP Jan.
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/3 "2014-10-09T22:07:35Z")
Damn! It was she who taught me that there is no basement at the Alamo! ☹
RIP.
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/4 "2014-10-09T22:37:48Z")
Very sad. Her era of SNL was the comedy I grew up with. I remember it very fondly.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/5 "2014-10-09T22:50:14Z")
> [@terentii](#):
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> Damn! It was she who taught me that there is no basement at the Alamo! ☹
Well buenos dias!
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/6 "2014-10-09T22:52:53Z")
> [@hampshire](#):
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> well buenos dias!
a-dob-ee!
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/7 "2014-10-09T22:55:28Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#):
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> a-dob-ee!
Real ma-_ture_!
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/8 "2014-10-09T22:56:17Z")
She was 57? Damn, she looked good for her age. Except for the being dead part.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/9 "2014-10-09T23:00:39Z")
> [@Biggirl](#):
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> 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:
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/10 "2014-10-09T23:44:15Z")
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. ☹
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2014, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/11 "2014-10-09T23:59:26Z")
[I believe Phil Hartman and her were close. Both gone.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=47rzQzPILu0#t=98)
She was underrated during a very good time on SNL. I thought she was hilarious.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/12 "2014-10-10T00:09:14Z")
the early Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/13 "2014-10-10T00:52:00Z")
Any cause of death reported yet? I’m fearing suicide or accidental overdose. She looked kind of rough in recent years.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/14 "2014-10-10T01:20:11Z")
> [@GrandWino](#):
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> 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”.
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### Author:  [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/15 "2014-10-10T01:22:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/16 "2014-10-10T01:36:18Z")
> [@Sampiro](#):
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> I loved her. I never understood why she didn’t have a bigger career.
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> 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. 😕
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### Author:  [@Fiveroptic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveroptic)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/17 "2014-10-10T02:00:58Z")
[Here are six hours of her sketches](http://happyplace.someecards.com/celebrities/in-memory-of-late-snl-star-jan-hooks-here-are-six-hours-of-her-sketches/).
The very first one, Brenda The Waitress with Alec Baldwin, is my very favorite.
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### Author:  [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/18 "2014-10-10T02:25:43Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> I thought I read “long illness”.
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.
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/19 "2014-10-10T02:58:51Z")
I was fortunate enough to see her onstage in [A.R. Gurney’s “Sylvia”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_%28play%29) 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.](http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/watch-jan-hooks-and-phil-hartman-in-the-weird-gorgeous-1644570315)
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### Author:  [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-jan-hooks/700904/20 "2014-10-10T03:28:23Z")
I still remember her from the old Bill Tush Show on WTBS here in Atlanta:
[Jan Hooks as Tammy Jean in an early appearance](http://youtu.be/NvqmnsxdWpQ).
Reportedly the Bill Tush show got cancelled because Ted Turner didn’t “get it.”
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