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Toward the end of the character's run, a parody sketch of the film Misery aired in which Dana Carvey is doing a stand-up tour in Colorado, and announces to the audience this is a special day as it is the last time he will ever be doing a Church Lady sketch.

He is then driving in a snowstorm with Jon Lovitz, where Carvey says it was about time to put the Church Lady to rest and not make it a running gag.

Lovitz ( who played Satan in a December 1988 Church Lady sketch ) pathetically asks if he can now play her ( Lovitz ' stalled career was a running joke on SNL the season after his official departure ), but is interrupted by heavy snow flurries crashing the car.

Carvey is rescued by guest star Roseanne Barr, playing the Church Lady's disturbingly obsessed Number One Fan, who is so gleeful at rescuing Carvey and buys him things such as " orthopedic shoes, just like the Church Lady wears!

" However, she becomes furious when she reads a comedy review saying Carvey has stopped doing the Church Lady, and intends to hold him until he promises to resume playing her.

Reciting the lines was not good enough either, as Roseanne holds Carvey at gunpoint forcing him to wear the Church Lady wig and get her facial expressions and voice just right.

Lorne Michaels tries to find the missing Carvey, but becomes increasingly uninterested, deciding instead to promote the " Makin ' Copies " character, played by Rob Schneider.

The skit ends with Carvey and Roseanne in a climactic fight scene, but Roseanne comically keeps getting back up.

She and then Carvey are shot by the still-alive Jon Lovitz, who claims the Church Lady character for himself.