Hooks, Flatline and Sinker.

Jan Hooks, who’d be happy to take you on a tour of the Alamo’s basement, has died at the age of 57. Passed over for a spot on Saturday Night Live for Joan Cusack, Hooks dodged the bullet of the disastrous 1985-86 season, and instead joined the cast along with Dana Carvey, Phil Hartman, Victoria Jackson, and Kevin Nealon in 1986, forming, with holdovers Nora Dunn, Jon Lovitz and Dennis Miller, the strongest cast since the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players. She left SNL to replace Jean Smart on Designing Women, she played an amorous driving school student with a thing for foreheads in The Coneheads, voiced Manjula for a few episodes of The Simpsons, and played Jenna’s mother in two episodes of 30 Rock, making her the second parental unit from that show to die in the last 4 months (Elaine Stritch). We’ll miss you Buck Henry.