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Victoria Jackson joins us today on the School of Laugh Podcast. Victoria Jackson may be best known for her 6-yr stint on Saturday Night Live. She was a regular cast member on SNL from 1986-1992. But even before that she was making people laugh. She became a TV star without her family even owning a TV when she was young. But when she was just 19 she left home and traveled to L.A. to take a shot at showbiz.

She made the transition from handstands to Hollywood and captured the curiosity of millions every Saturday night.

We get into all kinds of discussions today and I learn a lot, including:

Victoria Jackson Show Notes

• Not having a TV set when she was kid
• How a Rifleman’s son got her to move to L.A.
• Marrying a fire eater
• What Tonight Show booker Jim McCawley said to her before her first appearance
• Her 20 appearances on the Tonight Show
• The big difference between Johnny Carson and David Letterman
• What aspect Lorne Michaels said she needed more work on
• Her auditions for SNL
• Why she is taking film classes
• Where she feels she belongs in the arts
• How she got so good at those handstands
• Why she wasn’t asked back to the Tonight Show
• What brought her to Nashville
• Victoria Jackson’s advice to new comics

To learn more about Victoria Jackson go to ... you guessed it - VictoriaJackson.com