SNL’s Victoria Jackson Loses Tea Party Bid
Victoria Jackson has thus far been less successful in politics than her fellow SNL alum Al Franken.
Victoria Jackson has thus far been less successful in politics than her fellow SNL alum Al Franken.
The Nashville Tennessean (“‘SNL’s Victoria Jackson falls to incumbents”):
Victoria Jackson, the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member who has made a name for herself as an active tea party participant, conservative activist and outspoken opponent of President Barack Obama, has lost her bid to win a spot on the Williamson County Commission.
Jackson received 632 votes, losing out to Judy Lynch Herbert, with 1,422 votes, and Betsy Hester, with 1,380 votes.
I somehow missed that Jackson was a Tea Party activist, much less running for minor elective office. A distant third is a rather poor finish for a minor national celebrity in such a low-level race.
She’s batcrap crazy and has been a minor conservative figure for a couple years, I remember she was a CPAC a couple years ago.
She finished third because she was too crazy for even Tennessee.
Yes she was at CPAC in 2011 at least and she’s had a column at World Nut Daily for some time now.
I suppose becoming a crazy right winger is a natural transition for the least funny, least talented person to ever be an SNL case member.
Yet another embarrassing performance from a former SNL member. – Her politics seem as wacky as her SNL comedy skits. She is the former girlfriend of Weird Al. – In normally Democratic Minnesota, former SNL writer and actor Al Franken just barely convinced voters that he was a serious candidate to win office there. Many voters just don’t take these former SNL members too seriously, where they have an uphill job convincing the voters.
@Doug Mataconis:
Oh come now. She may not have been all that funny, but in the pantheon of SNL alumni there are certainly worst performers.
Like…umm…hold on…
Well there was that bald chick who tore up the picture of the po–oh she was just a guest.
Ummm.
Ok, nope, you are right. My apologies.
It never seems to occur to the Tea Party that running kooks, flakes, hysterical demagogues, and career showboaters probably isn’t the best electoral strategy. Their candidates get thrashed–but that’s NEVER because the candidates themselves are lousy. Nope. It’s because of the machinations of The Evil Karl Rove, or the liberal RINO Establishment personified by that notorious left-winger Mitch McConnell, or the editors of that Commie rag The National Review.
@Neil Hudelson:
Jackson herself was probably one of the worst SNL performers, but she had the luck to be hired in season 12, the same year geniuses like Phil Hartman and Dana Carvey. So despite her personal lack of talent, the incredibly strong cast around her means she was still in a lot of great episodes of the show.
@Neil Hudelson: “Well there was that bald chick who tore up the picture of the po–oh she was just a guest.”
When Sinead O’Connor tore up the picture of the pope, it was not on SNL, it was on a tribute concert for Bob Dylan. And she did it to call attention to a bizarre, ludicrous conspiracy theory that no one at the time could believe — that the Catholic church was actively protecting priests who molested children.
Oh, that wacky bald chick. Who could have come up with such a nutty idea?
@wr:
No, it was on SNL. I recall the incident because I actually saw it live. The Wikipedia entry:
I was unaware of anything related to a Dylan tribute but, sure enough:
@James Joyner: I guess I’d confused the two over the years. Sorry about that!
Well, I guess it’s official . . . the fat lady has sung.
@Doug Mataconis: SNL is godawful, the only SNL skit that I ever found to be funny was the Seinfeld/Oz crossover, and that was only because no SNL regular was involved. I haven’t seen any SNL skits featuring Jackson but she can’t be worse than than Jimmy Fallon. Any way I suspect that Victoria Jackson is a parodist and not a genuine teabagger.
@Sejanus: Sadly real. Jackson’s father is a Bab-tiss preacher; she comes to her lunacy via religion.
I’ve seen Victoria Jackson speak unscripted a couple of times, and she struck me as being about as smart as a box of rocks. Maybe that’s unfair to the box. I think, even if I agreed with her politics, I would vote against her just because I wanted there to be a chance that the county commissioner could read the notes to the meetings and understand them.
@wr:
Um. Ok. It was on SNL. And it seems you are angry at me for calling her crazy, which I didn’t. I called Victoria Jackson crazy. Did I miss something here?