Career
In 2015, the magazine Rolling Stone ranked Gail Matthius at, out of 141 cast members, the 74th best of, calling her, "A flicker of hope in the "80 debacle, with a sharp Valley Girl mall-chick character named Vickie. Matthius and Vickie both deserved better."
Recurring characters
Roweena, a Midwestern-accented hairdresser who often has a neurotic, middle-aged woman named Nadine (played by Denny Dillon) as a frequent customer. Francis Lively, wife to Charles Rocket"s Philosophy Lively, a fellow game show host who lives life at home as if it were just another game show.
Celebrity impersonations
Brooke Shields, in a parody of the racy Calvin Klein television ads that featured her.
Irene Cara
Nancy Reagan
Mary Cunningham
Following her stint on SNL, Matthius appeared in the short-lived British/American sketch show Assaulted Nuts and the syndicated sketch comedy series Laugh Trax (where she revived her Valley Girl Vicki character from SNL). She has done a good deal of voice acting for animated shows in the late 1980s into the 1990s, including Bobby"s World (with Laugh Trax co-star Howie Mandel), Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Bump in the Night and The Tick, often using the voice of her Valley Girl and Roweena characters from (in characters such as Martha, who sounds like Roweena, and Shirley the Loon from Tiny Toon Adventures).
She continues to perform as an improv and drama theater actress to this day.