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	Julia Sweeney -- Business Motivational Speakers
		On Saturday Night Live Julia Sweeney was known for her wide-ranging characters and impersonations, including the sexually ambiguous Pat, singer Ethel Merman and NBC News' Jane Pauley.
		Julia Sweeney’s TV credits include appearances on Frasier, Mad About You and 3rd Rock from the Sun and her film credits include roles in Pulp Fiction, Coneheads and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.
		is Julia’s story of pain, the struggle to overcome and her renewed outlook on life – a story of inspiration to all.
	www.bigspeak.com /julia-sweeney.html (219 words)

	Julia Sweeney Photos - Julia Sweeney News - Julia Sweeney Information
		Best known for her creepily androgynous character Pat, actress-comedienne Julia Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington; she first entered show business not as a performer but as an accountant, working at the Los Angeles offices of Columbia Studios for over five years.
		Julia began life as a Roman Catholic, gradually became agnostic, and now she claims to be atheist.
		Julia: (About her most famous character...Pat) Pat was originally inspired by a guy, so I was kind of trying to imitate a guy, and then it became another women and another guy.
	www.tv.com /julia-sweeney/person/50461/summary.html (736 words)

	TED \| Speakers \| Julia Sweeney
		Known for her four-year run on Saturday Night Live and her powerful solo shows, Julia Sweeney is carving out her own territory in entertainment, one that moves between the personal and the political, the controversial and the comical.
		In this, as in all her performances, Sweeney projects a warmth and sincerity on stage that's unmatched in today's theater; you immediately feel you're chatting with an old friend.
		Sweeney — who's well-known for both her 4-year run on Saturday Night Live (where she invented the character "Pat") and her powerful one-woman shows (Her first was "God said Ha!") — projects a warmth and sincerity on stage that's unmatched in today's theater; you immediately feel you're chatting with an old friend.
	www.ted.com /index.php/speakers/view/id/85 (608 words)

	Julia Sweeney - Advisory Board - Secular Coalition for America
		Julia Sweeney is best known for her androgynous character Pat on "Saturday Night Live," and her critically acclaimed one-woman monologue,"God Said, Ha!" "God Said, Ha!" played on Broadway at the Lyceum theater in 1996.
		Sweeney spun one of her most popular characters into the feature film "It's Pat," and after leaving "Saturday Night Live," moved back to Los Angeles.
		Among Sweeney's more recent stage work is the one-woman show "In the Family Way," which started on stage in NYC in early 2003 at the Ars Nova Theatre, and has since migrated to the Groundlings Theatre in Los Angeles.
	www.secular.org /adv_board/jsweeney.html (569 words)

	jamie-cole.com: Not Pat, Just Julia Sweeney
		Julia Sweeney was on Saturday Night Live for several seasons, and her character "Pat" was what she was most famous for.
		Julia still had to wait another few weeks before she knew for sure the job on SNL was hers.
		Julia was Lorne Michaels' choice, and she developed a good relationship with him from the start.
	www.jamie-cole.com /clips/julia.html (1243 words)

	Julia Sweeney's journey - from 'God said Ha!' to 'God is silent'
		Sweeney described her Roman Catholic upbringing as "85 to 95 percent wonderful." But she said embracing real life instead of an afterlife would be good news for the human race.
		Sweeney had her first moment of spiritual bravery at age 10.
		Sweeney's performance also reminded him that there are secular parallels to the healing community of religious worship.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2006/10.26/09-sweeney.html (1151 words)

	Who's Who Among the Godless, Julia Sweeney -- Beliefnet.com
		Actress Julia Sweeney may still be best known for her androgynous "Saturday Night Live" character Pat, but she is building a name for herself as the country's foremost atheist entertainer.
		Her funny and touching one-woman show, "Letting Go of God," chronicles her life from her Catholic upbringing to her wrestling with belief and the Bible during college, during tough moments in her career, while her brother was dying of cancer, and after her own cancer diagnosis.
		Sweeney eventually settled on atheism and opened her show about the journey in October 2004.
	www.beliefnet.com /whoswho/atheists/whoswho_gallery_2.html (161 words)

	Playbill News: Julia Sweeney Brings God Back to the Ars Nova Beginning Oct. 19
		Former "Saturday Night Live" star Julia Sweeney, who was seen on Broadway in God Said "Ha!", returns to the Ars Nova Oct. 19 for an encore engagement of Letting Go of God.
		Sweeney will perform at the intimate theatre on West 54th Street through Oct. 29.
		Julia Sweeney wrote and performed her God Said "Ha!" — about the loss of her brother — in Los Angeles before heading to Broadway's Lyceum Theatre.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/102806.html (436 words)

	Julia Sweeney — KCRW \| 89.9FM
		When comedienne Julia Sweeney and her brother both got cancer, she decided to tell the story the best way she knew how: in a comedy club.
		She eventually turned some of these vignettes into a one-woman show called God Said Ha!, which Quentin Tarantino made into a movie and Julia put out as a book.
		The comedy club where she performed, called Un-Cabaret, is devoted to getting very funny people to tell unusually honest stories.
	www.kcrw.com /etc/programs/ta/ta060610julia_sweeney (141 words)

	Julia Sweeney - Entertainment News, Tenpercenteries, Media - Variety
		The agency will rep Sweeney in the areas of theatrical representation and writing.
		Sweeney, whose one-woman show "In the Family Way" is playing at the Groundlings Theater, is a writing consultant for "Sex and the City" this season.
		She also is penning two pilots, a one-hour ABC drama with Pariah as well as a half-hour sitcom with Acme Prods.
	www.variety.com /article/VR1117895374?categoryid=29&cs=1 (160 words)

	Julia Sweeney’s Celebrity Atheism - Pop Occulture
		Sweeney seems to be describing a personal journey from organized religion into no religion, but the parts she describes don’t seem to fit together to me. What I mean by that is that when asked where religion started to dissolve for her, she basically describes a personal experience of God touching her life:
		I was 38, and I was going through a personal crisis where this guy I’d been dating for four years and totally expected to marry and have a family with abruptly broke it off.
		She describes what a religious person might call an epiphany, but a belief on God isn’t necessary to have them, and having one doesn’t always mean the person will conclude that God is the messenger and experience a conversion.
	www.timboucher.com /journal/2005/12/13/julia-sweeneys-celebrity-atheism (3735 words)

	Letting Go of God - Julia Sweeney
		Letting Go of God, begins with the precocious Julia, daughter of devout Catholic parents, being informed by her father on her seventh birthday that, now she was seven, she had reached “the age of reason.” She now would be able to recognize the difference between right and wrong thus rendering her capable of sin.
		Julia is indignant that she was not informed ahead of time so that she might have taken advantage of that knowledge to commit those acts before the age of seven.
		As Sweeney grew older her “relationship with God was like we were an old married couple getting in trouble with each other.” Her caring and consternation are palpable.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/LettingGoofGod.htm (704 words)

	Julia Sweeney at Hollywood.com
		Sweeney was best known for her popular recurring character Pat, an annoying, androgynous, bespectacled person whose gender remains a mystery to all around him/her.
		Sweeney has attributed her success to her background in improvisation which stressed acting and character rather than the delivery of punchlines.
		Sweeney's life and career took an unexpected turn in 1995 when her brother Michael died of lymphoma and Sweeney herself was treated for cervical cancer.
	www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Julia_Sweeney/189150 (1045 words)

	Julia Sweeney - Celebrity Atheist List (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sweeney is probably best known for her sexually-ambiguous character 'Pat' on Saturday Night Live when she was a cast member in the 1990s.
		[Julia] was raised a Catholic, did the K-12 Catholic school sequence, etc. But then a few years ago she went to the Galapagos islands and had an epiphany of sorts.
		Sweeney was featured on Ira Glass' This American Life in June 2005 [1] where she presents an excerpt from her Letting Go of God one-woman show.
	www.celebatheists.com /index.php?title=Julia_Sweeney (505 words)

	Amazon.ca: God Said, Ha!: a Memoir: Books: Julia Sweeney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story of Sweeney, her brother, and her parents (whose moving in with her gave odd comic relief to all the health problems) is a moving tale, tragedy leavened with moments of good humor and uplifting insight.
		The stories of Mike's chemotherapy and relapses and of Sweeney's living again with her parents are poignant and witty, but the printed page is no match for the well-lit stage, as seeing the material performed, with Sweeney's timing and facial expressions, is what makes the tears of sadness and laughter flow.
		Before Mike died, Sweeney was diagnosed with cervical cancer or, as Mike called it, her "sympathy cancer." You wouldn't wish Sweeney's ordeal on anyone except a professional comedian.
	www.amazon.ca /God-Said-Ha-Julia-Sweeney/dp/0553379232 (1412 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: After God said "Ha!," Julia Sweeney said "No!"
		When Julia Sweeney performed excerpts of her solo play "Letting Go of God" on the popular public radio show "This American Life," response from listeners flooded in.
		Sweeney mended fences with her family, but stuck to her new-formed views.
		Of the relief she, and others, have found in religion in times of illness and grief, Sweeney says, "It is comforting to imagine there's a power that knows you, a consciousness cheering you on.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2002972625_sweeney05.html (1118 words)

	Julia Sweeney - Biography - Moviefone
		Best known to audiences as the androgynous, nerdy "Pat" from Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member from 1990 to 1994, Julia Sweeney actually began her comedy career as an accountant, of all things.
		Sweeney, like fellow cast members Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, was given the opportunity to star in a spin-off feature of her very own, called It's Pat.
		Tarantino then executive-produced what was arguably the most important work of Sweeney's career: God Said, Ha!, a film version of her one-woman Broadway show detailing her "cancer year," in which she and her now-deceased brother Mike battled the deadly disease.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/julia-sweeney/69330/biography (328 words)

	Amazon.com: God Said, "Ha!": Books: Julia Sweeney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some of what Julia discusses is terribly upsetting; like when her brother has to have a spiget-like thing installed in his head so they can get the medicine directly into his cranium.
		Julia Sweeney's one-woman show about the time in her life when both she and her brother were dealing with cancer has been filmed and is now on DVD.
		Julia Sweeny seems from interviews to be a likeable person, and her writing is similarly winsome.
	www.amazon.com /God-Said-Ha-Julia-Sweeney/dp/0553106473 (2080 words)

	onegoodmove: Julia Sweeney
		I love this Julia Sweeney piece but think this is a terrible video because of what BMW did in the way they edited it.
		Because Julia was just voicing her concern about her beliefs and she was not given a chance to draw to her conclusions (in which she thoroughly rejects her religious beliefs), her troubling struggle with her doubt is used by BMW copy writers to underscore the importance of.
		But to cut Julia before her conclusions, to prevent the listener from hearing where she was going, and then to use it in the way they did was just a bit too cynically exploitive for me.
	onegoodmove.org /1gm/1gmarchive/2006/12/julia_sweeney_2.html (610 words)

	Bookins: God-Said-Ha - Julia-Sweeney - 0553106473
		Hilarious, unflinchingly honest, and moving, Julia Sweeney's autobiographical one-woman show God Said, "Ha!" wowed critics and audiences in Los Angeles and on Broadway. Now she has expanded her show into a memoir of one disastrous year in her life.
		That Julia and Mike referred to the home as the International House of Cancer, and obsessed over whether their cat had cancer, too, is an example of how they tried to positively spin the positively horrible.
		Not only is Julia taking care of her brother but dealing with the inevitable problems of too many people in too little a space.
	www.bookins.com /bookdetails/God-Said-Ha/Julia-Sweeney/0553106473/1550193/TC/desc (733 words)

	Bio for Julia Sweeney on MSN Movies
		Best known to audiences as the androgynous, nerdy "Pat" from Saturday Night Live, where she was a cast member from 1990 to 1994, Julia Sweeney actually began her comedy career as an accountant, of all things.
		Sweeney, like fellow cast members Mike Myers and Dana Carvey, was given the opportunity to star in a spin-off feature of her very own, called It's Pat.
		The film was reportedly rewritten by close pal Quentin Tarantino, who cast her that same year in a small role opposite Harvey Keitel in his Oscar-winning film Pulp Fiction.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=20683 (306 words)

	Julia Sweeney's God Said, “Ha!” — Infoplease.com
		Actually, the illness is only a launching pad for Sweeney's poignant, often hilarious, autobiographical show about the unbreakable ties that bind parent to child, brother to sister.
		Sweeney gained notoriety for her role as the mysteriously androgynous Pat.
		Sweeney, newly divorced and seeking a fresh start, moved to Hollywood and bought a house where she could listen to Tchaikovsky and write screenplays.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0196118.html (270 words)

	This American Life \| Julia Sweeney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Julia Sweeney's brother got cancer, and when she got cancer, she went onstage at a comedy club to talk about it all.
		Julia took care of him, and he and her parents moved into her house to be near a cancer treatment center.
		Julia eventually turned some of these vignettes into a one-woman show called God Said, Ha!, which Quentin Tarantino made into a movie and Julia put out as a book.
	www.thislife.org /pages/descriptions/96/9.html (281 words)

	Amazon.com: God Said, Ha!: A Memoir: Books: Julia Sweeney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story of Sweeney, her brother, and her parents (whose moving in with her gave odd comic relief to all the health problems) is a moving tale, tragedy leavened with moments of good humor and uplifting insight.
		In 34 short chapters, each headed by a small photograph, Sweeney talks about the "worst year" in her life by concentrating on funny episodes that gave her the strength to deal with these events.
		Julia Sweeny's one-woman-show-turned-movie (produced by Quentin Tarantino) is that second type of humor; deeper, and funny in a way that not only makes you smile on the outside but (pardon the cheesiness) also smile on the inside.
	www.amazon.com /God-Said-Ha-Julia-Sweeney/dp/0553379232 (2062 words)

	In the Family Way -- Julia Sweeney
		Pushing 40, coping with the break-up of a four-year relationship, Julia Sweeney suddenly had a frightening revelation: "How could I forget to have a family?" Admittedly, her prospects were bleak.
		Undaunted, Sweeney decides to become a single mother, by adopting a girl from China.
		Julia Sweeney was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1989-94, and is best known for the mysteriously androgynous character, "It's Pat!".
	www.audible.com /adbl/store/CJProduct.jsp?productID=PF_JULI_000001 (234 words)

	lies.com » Julia Sweeney’s Crisis of Faith
		Here’s an unauthorized capture of the awesome bit by Julia Sweeney that This American Life aired over the weekend: Letting go of God.
		Sweeney did a truly outstanding job and it’s nice to see the non-religious getting some representation.
		Just out of curiosity to any religious readers of lies.com, what was your reaction when Sweeney applied the amusement she felt at the “Mormon story” to the catholic beliefs she was raised with and realized the catholic beliefs were no less incredible than the mormon ones?
	www.lies.com /wp/2005/06/07/julia-sweeneys-crisis-of-faith (775 words)

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