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Julia sweeney weird al11/21/2023 ![]() ![]() “ ” Jackson: I never did anything like this, but we have to, because the President’s a communist. She has claimed credit for her "prescient" prediction of Obamunism: In 2010, WorldNutDaily allowed her "thoughts" to grace the pages of its website by giving her column space. This helped land her a cushy position as a regular blogger on Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood site. In 2009, she became a foot soldier in the war against creeping Obamunism by joining the ranks of the Teabaggers. Jackson launched her political career in 2000 by learning how to vote. Otherwise, to "Weird Al" Yankovic's fanbase, she is known for her performance in UHF as George's love interest, Teri. She was also known for her celebrity impressions and appearances in "Toonces the Driving Cat" sketches. The character was known for her god-awful poetry. Her most memorable role-a real stretch for her-was as an airhead anchorwoman on Weekend Update alongside Dennis Miller. Jackson was a B-list cast member on Saturday Night Live during the late 1980s and early '90s. 7 SNL cast members who drank the Kool-Aid.4 Endorser of woefully incorrect medical "data".GOD SAID, `HA!' (PG-13, 85 minutes) - Contains risque material. ![]() That superficial link between Sweeney and her television persona is effectively destroyed, leaving someone far more interesting: a real person caught in the vivid, amusing light of her own self-scrutiny. We're drawn into the wry commentary of a woman who has successfully survived the ambushes life threw at her. We're not peppered with punch lines or shtick. She earns our respect the hard way, just telling her story in front of a modest set presumably in the style of the house where her story is set. It's the grace she exudes, that aura of newfound perspective because of those experiences. The surprise is not that Sweeney is funnier than you'd expect. "I do not have enough beds for couples to break up while they visit me," Sweeney points out. And there's the time when her mother decided she'd had enough of Sweeney's father, refusing to share the same bed. There is humorously horrified talk about her attempt to disassociate herself from the Pat character, not helped by her willingness one day to attend a public ceremony as Mayor for the Day dressed as Pat. There are anecdotes, full of embarrassing or tragic or funny moments: a terrible moment of flatulence in a bookstore, while clutching a book about the pope, or Sweeney's teenager-style attempts to sneak smokes and lovers' trysts behind her parents' backs. Over the course of her saga, we meet them all, including Michael, who faced the excruciating indignity of cancer with a great sense of the absurd Sweeney's mother, who says "noodles" instead of "pasta" and has a goofy thing to say about anything at any time and Sweeney's father, a lawyer in the field of Native American land claims, but who "wasn't exactly on the side of the Indians." Sweeney, who found herself sleeping on the couch, was almost obliged to revert to her adolescent role in the family. Sweeney's dream home became an instant hospice and family encounter center. He moved in with Sweeney while he underwent chemotherapy and radiation. Her brother Michael was diagnosed with lymphoma. But, as Sweeney describes it, God looked at her plans for a new life and said "Ha!" She bought herself a small house in Los Angeles, where she planned to start a brand new life. Sweeney had retired from "Saturday Night Live." She had come through an amicable divorce. And the story she tells, in this filmed version of her successful, one-woman play, takes you through the zaniest, bitterest, most edifying chapter almost anyone could have experienced. She is a modest and self-effacing performer, in wonderfully stark contrast to shameless one-man artiste, Spalding Gray. And my subconscious was still recovering from a moment in the 1993 movie "It's Pat," when Sweeney hangs naked from a stage harness, twisting and creaking slowly above the heads of a silent, horrified audience.īut as soon as Sweeney began speaking in her steady, soft timbre, those negatives disintegrated, including her association with "Pat," which she makes wonderful light of later in the movie. THE THOUGHT of watching "God Said, `Ha!,' " Julia Sweeney's tragicomic meditation on sickness, loneliness and weird relatives, didn't exactly charge me up with excitement.Īfter all, we were talking about the personal recollections of a former "Saturday Night Live" performer whose crowning achievement was the androgynous character Pat. ![]()
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