she's the definition of a ding bat

I once saw Victoria Jackson murder a man with a table leg on the steps of a church!

I have never seen Victoria Jackson on the steps of a church when whe was not murdering a man with a table leg.

Victoria Jackson raped and killed a girl in 1990.

Omg, yes! Instead of pissing off Eddy Murphy over the Jeopardy skit they could of had her on and pissed everyone in that audience off!

Shame they didn't have Julia Sweeney impersonate Victoria Jackson in "Celebrity Jeopardy".

Was it the Cosby joke at the end that pissed Murphy off? Honestly when I watched it I thought it was a clip and not a new sketch until the very end. Like, Justin Bieber? What year is it?

I'm not sure how well-documented Jackson's bat-shittiness is or how it would translate to the mainstream: in one of my many moments of weakness I read rolling stone's list of best and worst SNL hosts, and while she was near the bottom, it failed to mention any of this stuff, just the fact that she was a one-joke pony that stayed on there for 6 inexplicable years.

I'm sure it was her present craziness that led to her being uninvited. I'm sure the producers feared she'd break script and start yelling, "OBAMA IS A MUSLIM!!!!"

I wasn't sure if it "pissed Murphy off," but yes, he felt the Cosby jokes were "kicking the man while he was down."

And sadly, I'm having a hard time figuring out who's crazier right now: Jackson or Rudy Giulliani. Rudy's going off on how Obama was raised a Communist and does't love America because of who his parents/relatives were. This overlooks the rather colorful mobster-esque backgrounds of Rudy's own parentage...

I kinda want to watch the whole thing, or at least figure out who was invited/showed up. I just saw little snippets but I was surprised that Norm was featured, as I think Lorne Michaels still has a beef with him, or the other way around. I still avoid ex-employers like the plague, especially ones who have fired me or laid me off and fucked me on UI. I caught the Seinfeld bit too and Odenkirk was there, but no Conan, which isn't too surprising.

*Mostly because I want to see what Jim Brewer looks like and who has weirder looking eyes: him or Victoria.*

Oh yeah.

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=140321

I don't know what it'd be like if I ever met or talked to the guy.. the same thing happened to someone I did know, a voice teacher who was accused of the same sort of thing. Read the whole series of stories if you'd like to and want to feel depressed:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonianextra/2008/02/iverson.html

I knew him in a way that most did not (honestly, he seemed more into guys and never made a move on me).. I'm not saying he didn't do it but I wouldn't like it if anyone made jokes about the man, of which there were plenty. He did what Cosby did, which was to say nothing at all. Murphy did the right thing and I hope people don't twist the story into the fact that he supports an alleged rapist.

IZ; the rolling stone list was best and worst hosts of the show, not most dramatic slide into schizophrenia outside of the show, so I'm guessing they didn't care about the personal lives of the hosts outside of the show.

The reason Eddie didn't appear on SNL until the 40th anniversary show was because of a two second joke David Spade made at his expense during one of his "Hollywood Minute" bites.

I'm maybe 60% of the way through the oral history of SNL and what's strange is that Victoria honestly doesn't seem like a bad person. Sometimes, she actually sounds quite sensible. I guess the caveat here is that her interviews are likely twenty years-old at this point, so maybe she's had a sharp decline in mental stability.

SolRo, the one I read was like "top 141 cast members" and it got pretty personal with some of them, including something like how Phil Hartman was never one of the kids on the street but in a bar talking to a faceless blonde girl in the opening credits, and how horribly ironic it was that the person he was talking to would blow his brains out. It also straight-up referred to cast members as being assholes when not on set, things like that, not to mention substance abuse. But it's true, besides Jackson and Miller, I don't think I know any cast member's political or ideological affiliation, or in this case, mental state, but that's kind of because they don't go around making songs about it on youtube all the time. If I were to find out that David Cross was a secret Republican I'd be like "oh" but it wouldn't really change the fact that I like his stand-up, but I would listen to it a little differently and that's it. If you're reading this Mr. Cross, I really apologize! Please don't hurt me!

Spike I agree. As far as female comedians go I'd still rank her SNL days above Sarah Silverman (if you're reading this Ms. Silverman, I really apologize please don't hurt me) in terms of comedy, especially for the "ditzy blonde" role she was given on the show. Amy Poelher could've easily fallen into that same category if she was 20 years older. And Jackson did a good job of deconstructing her act as witnessed here:

http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=135692

I guess I'd compare her to Exene Cervenka. She's gone down the truther road and I don't respect that, but I'll still listen to X.

If there's not some other trauma involved, it seems that pitching severely to the right wing happens to celebrities that see a sharp decline in their popularity and are looking for any niche audience to reclaim what they had. It's happened to Victoria Jackson, Dennis Miller, and Ray Stevens. The latter two seemed to go on their wingnut trajectory after trying to be more "serious" about their craft and were basically told (by critics or via lackluster earnings) that they should stick to being funny.

Did Jackson try something similar at some point and get an unwelcome reality check?

Her ukelele act is pretty much the same as Kimya Dawson's. Or, to most people, the girl who did the song from "Juno." Say what you will about Dawson (personally I like her collaborations with Aesop Rock) but it's sometimes songs about the kitchen sink being a mess and who's gonna clean it up and sometimes about dinosaurs and unicorns and sometimes about the unnecessary invasion of Iraq. Sometimes it's all of those in one song. Sorry, she comes on this one pandora station I listen to a lot. In a lot of ways, it's the same observational humor as Jackson's SNL routine but leaning heavily to the left. I dunno if Jackson started out trying to do the same thing (post SNL and post-Juno) after Dawson got popular or not..

yeah, 2 for 2. Now it's the niggerguy and the niggergal.

If it looks like shit and it sounds like shit, chances are it's shit.

The best part about this "resurgence" of hers is that literally she has no new comedy material.

I mean intentionally.

Still waiting for that invasion of Iran you were so sure was going to happen, RoUS. Where is it?

Facism requires a powerful leader who can get things done. Obama is an empty suit just like George W. Bush. I don't blame him at all for what's happening to America. He's a symptom of a decadent empire in decline.

ROUS, you owe Mussolini an apology. Here is his Doctrine of Fascism, please read it.

http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/musso lini.htm

You may note that compared to our banality of evil driven klepto-lazy-police-state, actual fascism looks like a radically progressive social platform. It has been predicted, I think by the SPLC, but maybe it was a different group, that fascism will be the response to the American police state. I don't think Obama will ever represent anything as promising as fascism and even if he did, look at how bad Mussolini failed to follow his own bullshit.

Fascism was a distinctly European phenomenon. One leader will never be able to unite every ethnic group in 21st-century America, by force or otherwise, let alone every subculture within each ethnic group, especially now that America is fast becoming a polyglot with at least two competing languages. Fascism thrives on ultra-nationalism and most of us (anyone who isn't American Indian) aren't living on the soil of our distant ancestors. That makes a difference.

I suppose an argument could be made that America is running an updated version of fascism (the Linux to Europe's Unix), with all of the militarism and corporatism and none of the populism and nationalism. An argument could also be made that the phony-baloney two-party system acts as a collective autocrat. I wouldn't make those arguments because I feel like we're living in a sophisticated dystopian nightmare that defies classification, but I can understand why people use the F word to describe the current system.

My take on the system is, the shittiest people are the most interested in taking charge, while people with their heads screwed on straight have given up. That comes dangerously close to a Yeats quote, but our reality doesn't deserve to be commemorated with poetry.

The Teabaggers succeed because they get active in primaries and in general elections; it's a model the Left could follow, but don't.

He gave himself the power to assassinate whoever he wants, and has used it to kill including a 15 year old in Yemen, he willingly tortures people (ask Bradley Manning how his visit was), and lies about it, lied about closing Guantanamo in spite of the evidence of the number of innocent prisoners, spies on all citizens against their will, signed into effect a law that states it is perfectly legal to waive trials for anyone the government sees fit via indefinite detention, got rid of Occupy Wall Street due to it inconveniencing him so goodbye freedom of assembly, not to mention FM 3.39.40 which is a military document that outlines internment camps for refugees of global warming ie hurricanes and the like.

Oh and then there's drone strikes against women and children, and the targeting of journalists, neither of which is AT ALL WHAT FASCISTS DID.

Obama is a fascist piece of shit.

RoUS, you are the point at which the Left circles back around and meets Glenn Beck. Some of what you said I disagree with but at least I can grasp your point (drones), some of it is just plain uninformed (Gitmo - blame that on Congress and both parties are equally culpable BTW), and some of it is just the rantings of a crazy person ("got rid of Occupy Wall Street due to it inconveniencing him"). And it wouldn't hurt if you actually used the term "fascism" like you knew what it meant.

You aren't coming across as much more sensible than Victoria Jackson.

You are free to disagree with me but NDAA is treason against the Constitution and that alone should be at the very least impetus to impeach him.

I'm just sick of being lumped in with the Chicken Lady up above if I actually say I hate Obama. I know he's not a Muslim and yes he was born in America. That doesn't mean he's a good president.

That may be one of the best comments I've ever read. It's so gloriously simple and combines my fear of Muslims with my implicit trust of The Cosby Kids.