God Said, "Ha!"

If you've ever had that awful nightmare where you're suddenly back in high school and living at home with your parents, you have a pretty good idea of where Julia Sweeney is coming from. After her stint on Saturday Night Live ended (remember "Pat"?), Sweeney moved back to Los Angeles, only to learn that her brother Michael had been diagnosed with lymphatic cancer. In almost no time, Sweeney, a recent divorcee looking forward to life as a single Angelino, found herself sharing her dream home with not only her ailing brother but both her parents, who moved down from Washington state to help care for their son. Sweeney coped by doing what any gifted monologist ...