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Two of America’s most famous “geek” comedians, Saturday Night Live stars Jon Lovitz and Andy Dick, have brawled in an LA comedy club over the decade-old shooting death of fellow comedian Phil Hartman.
The fight occurred at the Laugh Factory, Hollywood, this month and was witnessed by club owner Jamie Masada.
“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,” Masada told a US newspaper.
Lovitz, however, is unrepentant about the bashing.
“All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is an asshole,” he said.
Being a comedian, I would have thought he would have made more use of his adversary’s surname. But then again, that would be obvious. Besides, by all accounts, a**hole is a more fitting description.
According to US media, Lovitz and Dick have been feuding ever since Dick allegedly reintroduced Hartman’s wife Brynn to cocaine at a 1997 Christmas party. She had been off drugs for 10 years before that.
“Phil was furious about it – and then five months later he’s dead,” said Lovitz.
Five months after the Christmas party Brynn shot Hartman dead, and then turned the gun on herself in one of the US entertainment’s industries most shocking killings.
Lovitz went on to claim the feud reignited last year when he was at a bar in Hollywood. Dick had approached his table and downed Lovitz’s guests’ peach liqueur drinks.
He then turned to Lovitz and said “I put the ‘Phil Hartman hex’ on you – you’re the next one to die.”
Lovitz was furious. “I wanted to punch his face in, but I don’t hit women,” he said.
Nope. He just picks them up by the head and smashes them into bars.
Then when the two ran into each other last Wednesday at the Laugh Factory, tensions boiled over.
“I wanted him to say he was sorry for the ‘Phil Hartman hex’,” Lovitz said.
“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, who is well known in the industry for bizarre behaviour including licking the faces of Farrah Fawcett, Carrie Fisher and Patton Oswalt at a comedy event last year, had no comment on the incident.
Meanwhile, I still scratch my head at the thought that Phil Hartman is dead, and Andy Dick – despite his decadent, drug-fuelled lifestyle – is alive.
Update: This excerpts from a 1998 Salon interview with Dick should indicate his depravity.
Was Phil Hartman a “father figure” for you?
Yeah. He was the kindest man. I wanted to emulate him. He had this family, everything was ideal. But look what happened.
Well, what did happen?
Just another addiction gone astray.
Update: My favority title for this incident: Jon Lovitz Opens Can of Whoop Ass on Andy Dick
Update: Jon Lovitz recounts the incident on The Dennis Miller Show (via: TMZ).
