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saturday night live Pay tribute to the former host Catherine O’Hara The following She died at the age of 71.
The NBC sketch comedy show aired a throwback bumper featuring O’Hara complete with the lower third of her name during a live broadcast on Saturday, January 31, which also featured guest hosts Alexander Skarsgård and musical guests. Cardi B.
A spokesman for O’Hara confirmed US Weekly She died on Friday, January 30, after a “brief illness” and “the family will hold a private celebration.” On Friday, paramedics took O’Hara to a local hospital in “serious condition,” according to a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman. Page six She had reportedly previously complained of “difficulty breathing.”
O’Hara occupies a unique position in saturday night livehistory, although she never officially became an actress. For her success at Canada’s groundbreaking sketch show CCTV, saturday night live executive producer Dick Ebersole He tried to hire O’Hara when he took over the show in early 1981.
Although there are some stories about O’Hara being scared away by the notorious instability saturday night live Chief Writer Michael O’Donoghueshe shot down the rumors in a 2024 interview, calling them “BS” people. Instead, O’Hara revealed that she decided not to accept the saturday night live out of loyalty CCTV.
“Our producers would make a deal with the network and we would make a season or two of the show, and then the deal would go away. There would be a break, and then we would make the show again,” she explained. “I was asked to participate saturday night live. Of course I agreed. Who wouldn’t want to do this? “
However, O’Hara ultimately gave up the potential seat saturday night live Season 6 cast Eddie Murphy when CCTV was selected for another season.
“Yeah, it’s not cool to take a job and leave it. You know what I mean?” she admitted, before adding, “Everything worked out the way it was supposed to.”
The decision was certainly successful for O’Hara, as she won her first Emmy Award in 1982 for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. CCTV. (O’Hara won her second Emmy after nearly 40 years, this time for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series) schitt’s creek.)
O’Hara eventually hosted saturday night live Twice, the first in April 1991 and the second on Halloween night in 1992.
As one of Canada’s most successful comedy exports, she starred in ” home alone, Beetlejuice, The nightmare before christmas and best show award. In 2025, with ” the last of us and studiorespectively.
O’Hara is reportedly filming Season 2 of Apple TV+ studio Until shortly before her death.
Two years before her death, Catherine O’Hara recalled feeling “lucky” to be alive. “I’m so lucky to be able to continue to do something like this at my age — I can’t believe it,” O’Hara told Elle Canada in an August 2024 interview while promoting her appearance in that year’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. “Over the past few years, when I’ve gotten (…)
“I really don’t know what to say” studio co-creator Seth Rogen admit via Instagram on Friday. “I told O’Hara that when I first met her, I thought she was the funniest person I’d ever had the pleasure of seeing on screen. home alone It was this movie that made me want to make movies. “
Rogen, 43, continued, “It was a true honor to work with her. She was hysterical, kind, intuitive, generous… She made me want to make our show good enough to deserve her presence. It’s just devastating. We’re all so lucky to live in a world where she’s in it.”
Many of O’Hara’s contemporaries and fans—including the last of us supporting role Pedro Pascal, home alone actor Macaulay Culkincomedian Amy Schumer and late night host Andy Cohen — own all Shared my memories of the comedy icon since news of her death broke on Friday.
saturday night live Airs Saturdays at 11:30 pm ET on NBC.
