Would have been 75 today...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 September 2023 22:20 (eleven months ago) link
Joe Rogan was being so fucking mean to me one day—and mostly we were all friends, but Joe could be a weirdo
Nice to know he was always like this.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:22 (eleven months ago) link
Yeah, looking again at Newsradio in recent years and it's pretty much all there already, except his character is generally regarded by the show as an idiot and tool.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 September 2023 23:55 (eleven months ago) link
Wasnt he an afterthought/change of actor anyway? ISTR the pilot had anoter guy.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Monday, 25 September 2023 00:24 (eleven months ago) link
Sort of. They originally cast Ray Romano as the handyman/tech guy, but he was dismissed before the pilot was filmed, and was replaced by an actor named Greg Lee, who was then replaced by Rogan when the series was picked up. Lee's character was a little different from Rogan's, which was probably tailored to his existing style (Rogan had already been doing standup and had other similar TV roles)
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 00:58 (eleven months ago) link
IIRC Rogan's character is depicted and constantly called out as a paranoid nut who's into crazy conspiracies. Anyway, that show has one of the craziest casts - it's pretty cool how they were able to tap into the best-known ensembles from that era due to the connections each actor had with either SNL, Kids in the Hall, the Ben Stiller Show, etc. with all of their other alum doing good guest turns, but so many of the main cast had these ridiculous fates. I guess everyone knew Andy Dick was a nutty creep, but Hartman getting murdered, Foley's horrendous divorce and Rogan's rise to fame, influence and billions of dollars....who would've guessed.
― birdistheword, Monday, 25 September 2023 02:55 (eleven months ago) link
connections each actor had with either SNL, Kids in the Hall, the Ben Stiller Show
^all those fall under SNL either by SNL itself or Broadway Video
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 25 September 2023 03:14 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjNP3tiE6N8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 03:52 (eleven months ago) link
Here's something really amazing from Tom Snyder's show from the night after...an excerpt from an earlier interview wherein Hartman explains how easily impressions came to him by demonstrating how he, John Wayne, Jack Benny, and Jack Nicholson have the same voice projected from different places (clip at 2:50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciDcWCDXxas
The whole original interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thBO3PG5GPQ
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 04:17 (eleven months ago) link
xpost They also had a lot of the Mr. Show cast on, though that’s another SNL connection obv
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, 25 September 2023 12:50 (eleven months ago) link
^^Was just thinking thinking of that ep with Odenkirk, Posehn and Cross as Dave's college Acapella group.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 22:53 (eleven months ago) link
Oh my god, I completely forgot about the thing where Bill McNeal was Mark Russell in the elevator....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FvW66hEjyo
Bonus Early Lauren Graham Action!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 September 2023 22:56 (eleven months ago) link
The Dana Carvey & David Spade "Fly On The Wall" pod just dropped two episodes (around 5 hours total) recorded live at The Groundlings' Tribute To Phil.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 18:17 (eleven months ago) link
^^Panel Discussion w/the hosts, Kevin Nealon, Julia Sweeney, and Jim Downey.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 18:55 (eleven months ago) link
Thanks!!!
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 19:01 (eleven months ago) link
He was a really nice man.
Not many SNL cast members you could say that about.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 19:24 (eleven months ago) link
Here's those SNL Change Bank ads with Downey they go on at length about. Hartman's in the second one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXDxNCzUspM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KodqIPMbyUg
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 19:37 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0w2R2JvZ7U
"She gave me several options"
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:07 (eleven months ago) link
Here's that hostage sketch Downey was enthusing about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8PLGXHW5gY
and the follow-up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1ZyffcKxu0
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 21:27 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEtrT3E4vb8
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 September 2023 22:31 (eleven months ago) link
The Album Art of Phil Hartmann
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:12 (two months ago) link
I didn't know he did that Harvey Mandel cover. I love that one.
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:35 (two months ago) link
Martin Mull was also an extremely talented painter/designer
― beamish13, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:36 (two months ago) link
Simply imagining Phil Hartman saying the word "Poco" kinda cracks me up for some reason.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 July 2024 18:45 (two months ago) link
In the mid-'90s, NBC used to run these little "Did you know?" interview featurettes about their stars under show end credits sequences, and one of them was about Hartman's album covers, primarily the one for History and Legend, which--like in that blog post--he cited as his favorite.
He talks more about it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4fr-92lOI
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 2 July 2024 19:02 (two months ago) link