That is because the show is often the pivotal moment in a comedian’s career. When it comes to a show like Saturday Night Live, the audience expects a high turnover of cast members. Admission is $8.So…why'd you like it? /UMOnRgD0Al- Saturday Night Live – SNL April 10, 2022 every Saturday beginning March 10 at Highways, 1651 18th St., Santa Monica. “I’ve been in a relationship with a man-Bill Lovejoy, my writing partner-for nine years,” he said. Sweeney hopes that societal tolerance for gays isn’t too far in the future. If someone wants to make fun of that, satirize me or my values. Sweeney (whose biography describes him as “openly gay”) is fully aware that his frankness may affect his career. A lot of them will say, ‘OK, be gay-but don’t flaunt it.’ ” “You’re challenging people’s value systems, and they’re going to react. “I guess it was a brave thing to do,” he said. For that reason-and because, as he says, he loves truth-Sweeney publicly admitted he was gay in 1986. Since people in glass houses ought not to throw stones, Sweeney keeps a tight leash on his own words (“I have to catch myself sometimes, when I’m being hypocritical”) and life style. And Nancy and Ron are like, ‘La-la-la, $2 million to speak in Japan. “Already we’re seeing the damage: to black people, gays. “You know, there are a lot of Republicans who don’t like the Reagans, don’t like what they stood for or how they behaved,” Sweeney said. “Not all Republicans are archconservatives,” said Sweeney, adding that some audience members come up after a show and say, “ ‘I’m a Republican, and I still think it’s hilarious.’ Look, I wasn’t the one who went out and bought new china. Sure, part of it’s about what happens when you take public office, part of being out there. But this is not a vendetta, and there are other things I like to lampoon. See, I’m a lover of truth I like people to be truthful. The 38-year-old performer said, “I think people are reacting to her fakeness, her insensitivity, her hypocrisy. He subtitles the show (excerpted from his upcoming book of the same name), “An Unauthorized Collection of Nancy Reagan’s Private Poetry.” In one poem, titled “Oh, I Had the Scariest Dream Last Night,” Sweeney’s First Lady intones, “I gave my old clothes to a mission, a shelter for women in need, and I even threw in my good china as my second noble deed.” Sweeney’s Highways program is a continuation of that relationship. Everything she was doing or not doing became fodder for us.” I found that once I got into that Adolfo suit, I could say anything. “The first sketch we did was a takeoff on ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Charles and Diana were over and the evening just got worse and worse. “They asked me if I could do Nancy Reagan, because they wanted to do political material,” said the Long Island native. It’s been more than three years since Sweeney first donned a lacquered wig and Adolfo suit (OK, a copy of an Adolfo) as a cast member on NBC-TV’s “Saturday Night Live.” In fact, he won the role when “SNL” producer Lorne Michaels caught his multiple characterizations-including his drag rendition of a low-rent gossip columnist named Connie Chutzpah-at New York’s 78th St. The association is neither accidental nor recent. I thought, ‘I’ve had it with her.’ It just crossed the limit of what I could take.” “It was very false, very ‘Feel sorry for me,’ still trying to manipulate public sympathy.
“When she wrote her book-well, that was the last straw,” said the ponytailed performance artist who opens today at Santa Monica’s Highways in “It’s Still My Turn,” a one-man, one-two punch aimed squarely at America’s former First Lady. Why is Terry Sweeney dressing up as Nancy Reagan-again?
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