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Marge Keister
Played by Jan Hooks
Jan Hooks plays Marge Keister, the tirelessly attentive wife and mother of Saturday Night Live's Keister family, who apologizes for her cooking while waiting hand and foot on the men in her household. SNL Archives credits the character in…
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Jan Hooks plays Marge Keister, the tirelessly attentive wife and mother of Saturday Night Live's Keister family, who apologizes for her cooking while waiting hand and foot on the men in her household. SNL Archives credits the character in the Keister Family sketches from 1986 to 1988.
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