We're heading over to Cedartown Georgia to pay our respects to Jan hooks former
Saturday Night Live alumni she's also co-starred in designing
women' and third Rock from the Sun I'd love for you to join me so let's go
we've just come into the city limits of cedartown and right here on the left is
North View Cemetery we're going to be turning in here and you'll recognize it
because it's a huge cemetery but it's also the entrance has these two large
stone pillars
then we go up here to the fourth drive on the left
and there's a sign that says bkh right there that's where you turn up here a
very short distance right before the end of the drive and you'll see there's a
kind of a street sign here on your right just pull off right there and now
we're at our destination so after you park we'll walk right out here
and this is where you'll find the final resting place of Janet Vivian hooks you
probably know her best as Jan hooks Jan was born April 23rd 1957 and she lived
most of her younger years and teenage years in Decatur Georgia now that's
where she attended elementary school in high school but in 1974 her father who
was a Sears employee was transferred to Fort Myers Florida that's where she
attended the remainder of her high school career and she went on to college
at Edison State College but she didn't finish college because she wanted to
pursue a career in acting and she began her career in acting in Los Angeles with
a comedy troupe called The Groundlings she still had ties in Atlanta though she
performed in a nightclub act called the wit's end players still here in Atlanta
from 1980 to 1981 she appeared on touch now what that was was a TV show on
channel 17 you guys know it is WTBS on your cable networks
well back in those days bill touch who is kind of a local I don't know a local
anchor local star on WTBS channel 17 he had a show and it was kind of a comedy
skit show for a couple of years Jan was on that also about that same time in the
early 80s she was on an HBO comedy series it was called not necessarily the
news she also made guest appearances on comedy break with Mack and Jamie I was
also kind in the mid 1980s and she had a chance to join Saturday Night Live in
1985 but the show's producers passed her over in favor of John Cusack now that 85
in 86 series was Dean kind of a ratings disaster and the show was kind of
scheduled for cancellation but they got Lorne Michaels back and he kind of put
together a whole new comedy team there with Dana Carvey Phil Hartman and Jen
hooks so once joining the cast of Saturday
Night Live she was able to create some of our own characters one of the most
popular was candy Sweeney The Sweeney sisters she was also very good at
imitation she was able to do everybody from Hillary Clinton to Betty
Davis and Margaret probably the one I remember the most was when she would do
Tammy Faye Baker and she stayed with Saturday Night Live up until 1991 and
she would make guest appearances all the way up until 1994 but for her and being
on live TV every week was kind of a stress and she even commented at one
time that before heat show she would kind of sit in a corner and she would be
kind of praying to herself that all of her skits would be removed she had
terrible stage fright so when she left Saturday Night Live a lot of the stars
that were on at that time and he even those after her thought that she would
have become a bigger star but because of her anxiety and her stage fright she
never really pursued a lot of work she did appear in several movies she was in
Jimmy Glick and la-la world she did some guest appearances on The Simpsons and
Futurama she even appeared in pee-wee's big adventure she also made a cameo
appearance and Batman Returns as djinns she was the image consultant for
penguins campaign to become mayor of Gotham City she appeared as a regular in
several TV shows including designing women and third Rock from the Sun sadly
at the age of 57 jamón was taken from us by throat cancer
so you may ask why is Jen laid to rest in a small town on West Georgia a little
place called cedar town well this is where her families laid to rest right
next to jen is her mom Sarah Margaret Brannon hooks who passed away in 1986
the inscription on her headstone says look for the good and praise it I think
that's something that we all could live by also buried in this cemetery is Jan's
aunt and her grandmother and her grandfather as a matter of fact janet
vivian hooks was named after her grandmother vivian Brannon
Jan gave us all the gift of laughter
after she passed away Saturday Night Live and the Simpsons both paid tribute
to Jan you can look it up on YouTube you can look up love is a dream that is a
tribute to Jan and also Phil Hartman it was a skit that they had performed on
the 14th season of Saturday Night Live so I'm sure you're wondering about the
pace picante sauce well in 1985 Jan did a commercial for pace picante
Jan's grave size just right down there but walking up from there
found this headstone apparently mr. harp enjoyed the game of baseball it's also
interesting on the front side
got Stanley's produce apparently Stanley Hart had a produce store if you look
right down here in the corner say it's going on thank you so much for joining
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