Why Jon Lovitz is My New Hero...

[RDK]

Yeah, I generally condemn violence but...

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Entertainment...rtman_hex/1424/

[Guy Berger]

I miss Phil Hartman.

Cooking with the Anal-Retentive Chef

[Randy Twizzle]

There's more on this important story from yesterday's NY Post.

July 17, 2007 -- IT was fight night at an L.A. comedy club last week when Jon Lovitz roughed up Andy Dick over the murder of their "Saturday Night Live" colleague, Phil Hartman.

Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, "Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or five times, and blood started pouring out of his nose." Lovitz told Page Six, "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is a [bleep]hole."

Lovitz and Dick have been at loggerheads since a 1997 Christmas party at Hartman's house, five months before his troubled wife Brynn flipped out, fatally shooting Hartman, then killing herself. "Andy was doing cocaine, and he gave Brynn some after she had been sober for 10 years. Phil was furious about it - and then five months later he's dead," said Lovitz, adding that when he filled in on Hartman's "Newsradio" sitcom, "I told Andy, 'I wouldn't be here now if you hadn't given Brynn that cocaine.' "

Last year, Lovitz related, a drunken Dick strolled up to his table at Ago in West Hollywood, rudely downed his guests' peach liqueur drinks, and "looked at me and said, 'I put the "Phil Hartman hex" on you - you're the next one to die.' I said, 'What did you say?' and he repeated it. I wanted to punch his face in, but I don't hit women."

When the two ran into each other at the Laugh Factory last Wednesday, "I wanted him to say he was sorry for the 'Phil Hartman hex,' " Lovitz told us. "First he says, 'I don't remember saying that.' Then he leans in and says, 'You know why I said it? Because you said I killed Phil Hartman.' Which I never said. Then he asked me to be in his new movie.

"I grabbed him by the shirt and leaned him over and said, 'I don't want to be in your movie! I don't want to be in your life!' I pushed him against the rail. Then I pushed him again really hard. A security guard broke it up. I'm not proud of it . . . but he's a disgusting human being." Dick's rep said he had no comment.

[Van Basten II]

Moral of the story is that Dick is a dick

[Dan Gould]

I'm working from my house these days and usually eat my lunch while watching Newsradio on TBS at noon. That was one very funny show, and Phil Hartman was absolutely perfect as Bill O'Neal.

[Alexander]

I met Phil Hartman many years ago when I was auditioning for SNL (long story). He was a genuinely nice man who immediately put my at ease and built up my confidence when it needed building. I have never forgotten that brief encounter and have always been grateful to him (even though things didn't work out with SNL). I was literally shocked by his death. He was a brilliantly funny man on SNL at a time when the show was frankly mired in mediocrity (I do not believe I would have improved the situation, btw).

I was never a huge fan of Lovitz on SNL, but I loved him on "The Critic" and his various "Simpsons" appearences. He's one actor I always like better as a voice than as a presence.

I never found Andy Dick to be the least funny.

Edited July 19, 2007 by Alexander

[JSngry]

...Lovitz and Dick have been at loggerheads since a 1997 Christmas party at Hartman's house, five months before his troubled wife Brynn flipped out, fatally shooting Hartman, then killing herself. "Andy was doing cocaine, and he gave Brynn some after she had been sober for 10 years...he's a disgusting human being."

Ya' know, the more I hear about Andy Dick, and the more I see of him "in action" as a performer, the more I prone I would be to concur with the conclusion if I was ever in a position where it mattered.

[Big Wheel]

People ragging on Andy Dick are usually funnier than Andy Dick himself.

Exhibit A: the Shatner roast

Exhibit B: the Pam Anderson roast

I'm hot and cold on Lovitz but his slapstick Hitler scene in Rat Race is one of the most hilarious movie moments ever.

Edited July 19, 2007 by Big Wheel

[BERIGAN]

I saw Jon Lovitz on some brief tribute to Phil Hartman in TV,(An SNL primetime special?) and he was surrounded by fellow SNL cast members. And he was just a mess, so very broken up about Hartman's death, he could barely talk, and it had been awhile since he had died. Clearly he was his best friend, and for Andy Dick to do say something so mean, is just horrible. I bet Lovitz hasn't been in a fight in 25 years, if ever.

[MoGrubb]

I always admired Andy Dick for his audacity. But, after reading this, especially if Dick knew of Brynn's problem with cocaine previously, the fucker's sick.

..."Andy was doing cocaine, and he gave Brynn some after she had been sober for 10 years....

[Dan Gould]

Even aside from what Andy Dick apparently did with Hartman's wife, there have been quite a few stories of some very odd behavior from him. I've never seen him in anything that I thought was amusing or a good performance but I do think that he was well cast in Newsradio.

[7/4]

Disturbing news...I loved that show.

[RDK]

http://stu.wccnet.org/~dlane24/whatadick.swf

[Dan Gould]

http://stu.wccnet.org/~dlane24/whatadick.swf

What was the point of using the Mork and Mindy music?

[RDK]

I'm kinda worried, Dan, that you recognize it as Mork and Mindy music!

[JSngry]

Maybe Andy Dick killed Pam Dawber too.

[DTMX]

This is the only Andy Dick performance I can recommend:

... And God Spoke

http://www.directorscut.com/ags/cast.html

With Soupy Sales as Moses, Eve Plumb as Mrs. Noah, Lou Ferrigno as Cain, and Andy Dick as Abel.

[Kalo]

Anyone else wonder if this is a pact between two has-beens to get a bit of juice flowing?

[Kalo]

Actually, Andy Dick was pretty funny early on as a member of the cast of the Ben Stiller Show; the consensus, however, is that he's been largely UNfunny since then...