Is My Bow Too Big? How I went from SNL to the Tea Party
Born in 1959, Victoria Jackson grew up in a Bible-believing, piano-playing, TV-free home in Miami. Her father coached gym, and she became a talented gymnast, even acquiring a college scholarship to Furman University. When Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman) met her at a summer stock production, he encouraged her to pursue acting and bought her a one-way ticket to Hollywood. For two years, she held odd jobs in the show-biz capital -- as a cigarette girl, waitress, and even typist -- until Johnny Carson noticed her stand-up routine and put her on The Tonight Show ... twenty times. After that, she starred in many movies and TV shows, most notably six seasons on Saturday Night Live. In 2012, she began a partnership with Liberty Alliance, a conservative media group, to produce her political webshow, The Victoria Jackson Show.