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In the Market with Janet Parshall
June 03, 2026
Best of In The Market with Janet Parshall: I’m Not Dead, Yet
SNL alum (1986-1992) Victoria Jackson has assembled her lifetime collection of handstand photographs, age 5 to age 65, her original poetry that began at age ten and continued through her TV years where she sang her original songs on Johnny Carson, Saturday Night Live, numerous talk shows and movies, and her original art rarely seen. She dots the collections with personal stories, detailing the highs and lows of her show biz career, marriages, and home life, sprinkling the colorful tales with favorite Bible verses that kept her strong in the face of adversity. Her recent diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer was the instigator that led her to comb through boxes and boxes of treasures and pick the ones she wanted to share with the world. Like the story of Hezekiah in the Bible when God said, "Get your things in order because you are going to die soon," Victoria is doing just that. Join us as Victoria Jackson teaches us how to live well here while preparing to really live in Heaven.
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Victoria Jackson
Born in 1959, Victoria Jackson grew up in a Bible-believing, piano-playing, TV-free home in Miami. Her father coached gymnastics so she competed from age 5-18. Her gymnastic skill led to a college scholarship to Furman University, where she was cast in her first play and got the acting bug. When Johnny Crawford (The Rifleman) met her at a Birmingham summer stock production, he bought her a one-way ticket to Hollywood to be in his night club act. For two years, she held odd jobs in the show-biz capital — as a cigarette girl, waitress, and 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. Jackson was reunited with and married her high school sweetheart, helicopter pilot Paul Wessel in 1992 and when he retired in 2013 from the Miami Dade Police Dept. they moved to Nashville to be near their daughters and 5 grandchildren. Jackson still appears in occasional films, does stand up comedy, and sings her original ukulele songs around town. Jackson authored Is My Bow Too Big? published by White Hall in 2012 about how she got on TV, and in 2017 she wrote Lavender Hair, published by Broadstreet, about her breast cancer journey and recovery. April 1, 2026 she releases Not Dead Yet: A Lifetime of Handstands, Art & Poetry, along with the audio book.
Jackson won Best Actress from the ECIFF in Australia for the 168 Film Festival short film, "Birthday Brash." She co-stars in the film "Into the Spotlight" and "Boardwalk Winter" now streaming. In 2024, Jackson released her first music comedy album, "When I Get to Nashville," 18 original songs written in the last 11 years since she moved to Nashville. Her next project was inspired when she got the news that her breast cancer had returned and was now Stage 4 and incurable. It is a comedic documentary called, "Victoria Jackson's First International Farewell Tour" where she travels the world saying goodbye in song and handstand. The only problem is she can't find an audience to say goodbye to! Filming in Greece, Paris, London, Turkey and New York has been completed and the film is being edited as we speak !
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Janet Parshall
Janet Parshall has been broadcasting from the nation's capital for over three decades. Her passion is to "equip the saints" through intelligent conversation based on biblical truth. When she is not behind her microphone, Janet is speaking across the country on issues impacting Christians. She has authored several books. Parshall and her husband, Craig, live in Virginia and have four children and six grandchildren.
In the Market with Janet Parshall
In the Market with Janet Parshall, challenges listeners to examine major news stories and issues being debated in the marketplace of ideas and speaks to them with the Word of God.
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