SNL honors Catherine O’Hara with on-air tribute a day after her death

Saturday Night Live paid tribute to Catherine O’Hara during its Jan. 31 episode, airing a tribute card on-screen right before the curtain call a day after the actress’ death. The episode was hosted by Alexander Skarsgård with Cardi B as musical guest. O’Hara died on Friday, Jan. 30, at age 71 after a "brief illness," PEOPLE reported.

The show displayed the tribute card for the late actress during the live broadcast. PEOPLE noted that O’Hara had been hired as a cast member for SNL’s sixth season but lasted only one week, resigning before appearing in a single episode of the 1980–1981 season so she could continue on the Canadian sketch show SCTV.

O’Hara did return to SNL’s Studio 8H in later years, making a cameo during an October 1998 episode and serving as host in April 1991 and October 1992, PEOPLE reported. She was best known for film roles in Beetlejuice and Home Alone and for Christopher Guest mockumentaries like Best in Show, and she won an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG Award for her work on Schitt’s Creek.

Shortly after O’Hara’s death was announced, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesperson told PEOPLE that dispatchers received a call at 4:48 a.m. on Jan.

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