Flashback: A Sweeney Sisters Holiday Gem

The Sweeney Sisters (now & off-screen): Nora Dunn, and Jan Hooks with her husband, Tom.

This may be a bit retro for some of you folks, but I received this YouTube link today from a friend and it totally blew me away--and took me back. It was 20 years ago this month that this hiliarious Saturday Night Live sketch featuring The Sweeney Sisters (who were two obliviously has-been-ish nightclub singers played by Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks; and two of my favorite recurring SNL characters, ever) aired, and it's just as brilliant today. (The clip is a bit wonky at the start, but it's really great.)

But like I said, Nora Dunn and Jan Hooks were both awesome. Nora Dunn turned in some classic SNL bits over the years (The Pat Stevens Show; Make Joan Baez Laugh; her Jeane Kirkpatrick was amazing); and Jan Hooks was always reliably funny. Hooks hasn't been working as much these days. I'm hoping she's just chilling and lying low. Dunn pops up more in TV and movies. I'm always happy to see either of them.

Anyway, just go here, and ring in some holiday greatness with Liz and Candy Sweeney. And William Shatner! The hair! The bad gowns! The bells!

"Clang, clang, clang went the trolley!"