Jon Lovitz chokes up talking about Phil Hartman 

It's hard to watch Lovitz so broken up. You can feel the love here.

I know this may sound trivial, but even with the great body of comedic work Phil Hartman created, I still like to post the little SNL video of him, Lovitz and Nealon doing the Christmas greeting each holiday as Frankenstein, Tonto and Tarzan! I have caught flak in recent years by folks online that it is profiling and racist, but it is the small chuckle Phil keeps giving to me each year. :-)

Rest In Heavenly Peace🙏🤍🕊🙏♥️

Jan Hooks 🪝 RIP 🪦

I will forever miss Phil Hartman, a comic's comic.

And Jan Hooks gone too. The greats never stay for long. RIP

Jon Lovitz is the type of person you can't ever imagine crying. Really hit hard

Jon Lovitz is a great comedy writer and actor. It hurts my heart to hear the soul crushing pain he is having in this clip. I wept when Phil was killed. I wept again watching Jon get choked up.

I think Hartman's death was soul crushing for a lot of folks. He was a guy that made you laugh even when you didn't feel like it. It was the first major moment in a lot of kids growing up in the late 80s and 90s life where you realized that life just sucks sometimes and it isn't fair. His impact was felt far beyond SNL in shows like Simpsons, Futurama (who's MC is named after him), etc. We miss you Phil.

I remember watching this live. I started tearing up, too. Phil Hartman and Chris Farley were 2 of my favorites from SNL.

I remember being so angry when he was killed by his wife. Phil Hartman was such an amazing gift to the world.

Phil Hartman, one of the funniest men in history. RIP. Also to Jan Hooks, funny lady. 🙏

I knew Phil Hartman's sister for years before I knew she was related to somebody famous. She's politically conservative and referred to him as my "liberal brother." She and her family loved him very much and were devastated by his death and of course particularly the tragic circumstances surrounding it. Memory Eternal.

Seeing and hearing Jan here makes me twice as sad that she's gone now too. ❤🕯🕯❤

Phil hartman was a great guy and actor. I miss him too. 😔😔😔😪😪😪

Phil Hartman created the album cover artwork for Poco's Legend, Steely Dan's Aja and America's Greatest Hits. He was a graphic arts student in college.

You could tell Jon and Phil loved each other just by the way they performed in their skits together.

I still forget he's gone because my mind refuses to accept it. I'll be watching Newsradio and I'll catch myself thinking, "I wonder what he's doing now?" Then I remember again. He was so talented and funny and unique. I miss him so much.

There was a similar touching tribute by Steve Martin for Gilda Radner the day she died, he was just barely able to hold it together like Jon Lovitz here. In a sense this must have been a lot tougher for them too, at least they all knew Radner was dying and had a chance to brace themselves for it, what happened to Hartman was totally out of the blue and senseless.

I talk to Phil’s brother every now and then. It means a lot to me that he told me Phil would’ve loved me had I met him. Lord knows I love him.

I would have just been devastated. Like many of his fans I didn’t know him personally of course, and this happened in 1998. I was 11 years old. I still get chills. I feel so bad for his friends and family. That was Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz. Bill Clinton and Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer and Frankenstein from SNL. He was the perfect straight man. In films he was successful and well liked. He would have gotten such a bigger break in films and it just really sucks. He was such a massive talent and even though Small Soldiers wasn’t great, that wasn’t his fault either. He was the best part of that movie. Geez I just remembered that he worked with Paul Ruebens and co-wrote Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Pretty sure he designed some album covers too. Again. Tremendous individual. I still think about this when I watch Futurama knowing that. He was clearly meant to play Captain Zap Brannigan had he lived. This was weirdly my first fascination with a celebrity death. I really read up on this guy and it shows. 😂

I genuinely like all those people and I miss them all.

Phil Hartman was one of the really good ones. A giver. Not a taker. Didn’t become a druggie or user. Just a victim from a taker. A really good man. And talented

In the SNL: Best of Jon Lovitz, you can listen to Lovitz's commentary and throughout it he talks about Phil and how incredible he was. In the last sketch, you can just hear so much sadness in losing him. Lovitz's love for Phil was exactly like Sandler and Spade's love for Chris Farley. A brotherly bond you couldn't break.

I was 12-13 when Phil passed. I knew who he was mainly from Jingle All the Way and Small Soldiers. It was 3-4 years later when I discovered everything else and how upset I was he’d been taken from us. A true comedy legend and one of the funniest humans ever!!

This is so moving, what a tragic loss it was. Phil was incredible. Glad to see the entire late 80s cast gathered together to pay homage to Phil.

I remember like two days before Phil died I learned he had cowritten Pee Wee's Big Adventure and I thinking he was even more of a comedic genius than i had already thought he was. For about a day I kept day dreaming that maybe he would write another film, then I heard the horrible news.

I still get sad when I think about how tragic Phil's death was. Phil Hartman and Chris Farley absolute legends of that era. Gone too soon.

RIP Phil your still missed

I am 55y. I have watched SNL since 1976. I love all the cast esp John, Dan, Gilda, Jane, Chevy, Eddie....... but Phil has always been my top favorite. His presence, snarkiness?, whatever just made my laugh, cry, think, feel a lot more and a lot different than any other SNL cast member had. RIP Phil ❤

hartman and farley. the most funniest and talented actors in SNL history

Phil Hartman's talent touched alot of people. As long as there is something out there like youtube, he & Jan Hooks will live on.

Rest In Peace Phil Hartman and jan hooks

So sad that Jan is also no longer with us.

A devastating tragedy. I hope Phil knows how much he still makes us laugh.

Phil was the greatest SNL cast member ever

Very talented man. Senseless murder.

My favorite clip from Phil is the SNL rehearsal gaffe where he covers it with "F ck it; it's dress!"

😭😭😭 he was loved. Funny, handsome and very kind.

Look at them standing so close together, & even clutching each others’ hands tightly. The way he died was shocking, horrifying & heartbreaking. RIP Phil & his wife, Bree 😪🙏. I hope their kids are doing great in life & they’re living long happy lives.

And we love you, Jan Hooks, so much! 💔

Very sad, because Phil would have been the kind of guy who could just keep coming back from time to time, to play an extraordinary character in SNL Sketches for years, like what Bill Hader or Fred Armisan do now.

That is Jan Hooks on the left telling us how much they miss Phil. Sadly, she also died way too young.

RIP Mr. Hartman! RIP Miss Hooks!

What an amazing cast.

Brain "Hey. HEY! You know how you are in a good mood right now? Go watch something sad."

Phil Hartman gave us New Jersey folks what Joe Piscopo never did: A funny Frank Sinatra impression, and that's worth ten thousand laughs. Just kidding. Phil was much funnier to me as so many other things but he died just after I was born. Still, he's undoubtedly one of the GOATs of American comedy and it's easy to recognize just how beloved and decent of a person he was.

I don't care how much money and fame you have. When you lose a friend, it hurts.

Houseguest was one of my favorites as a kid. I remember being upset after Phil passed. Such a funny, sweet soul 💕👍

This is still my all time favorite cast in SNL history. I was about 12 years old when their tenure started and they got me absolutely hooked on the show from that point forward. Everyone of them brought their A game! Dana, Jan, Nora and ESPECIALLY Phil were absolutely GOLDEN! RIP Phil! RIP Jan!

All of them with their own style and different from each other but love one another. I can't imagine the anger they must have felt along side the greiving sadness. That wife of Phil's caused alot of emotional damage and suffering.

RIP Phil Hartman and Jan Hooks

Last person to speak is Jan Hooks, and even she died nine years ago. 😢

Phil Hartman ,John belushi Chris Farley and John candy the fantastic 4 of comedy .

For as long as I live I will remember Hartman and Lovitz in 1) the Armistice sketch ("And so you're off to France!" "Am I?") and 2) the Johnny O'Connor sketch ("What's the word on the street?").

Rip jan hooks

Who stuck mike Meyers way back there..

Still hurts in 2023💯🌈🙏😭

RIP Phil and Jan.

You can tell these people were genuinely fruends. That this group still talk to each other and go on each others various podcast. There is a real bond and affection. And they all miss Phil.

This is so heartbreaking.

I was recently re watching the simpsons with my wife and i never realized how many characters he played on that show. But his final episode when they have the memoriam for him always gets me.

I feel like Lovitz died a little bit that day too.

吉本興業OMOカジサックチャンネルと是非RU-vidでコラボレーションして欲しいです。よろしくお願いします🤲🥺。

That "People's Court" skit where Jon was Mr. Methostopheles, aka- the devil- arguing over the hair dryers will always stand as a classic. Jan Hooks as the barfly mother to Rosanne Arquette, Kevin Neelan as Doug and the man himself Phil Hartman nailing down Judge Wapner. Even Rusty had a cameo role trying to get the devil to keep it moving. 😂😂😂

The ensemble cast of Hartman, Carvey, Lovitz, Hooks, Dunn, Jackson, Miller, Myers and Nealon was the best since the show’s debut cast with Belushi and Ackroyd.

Rip phil. Rip jan.

Simpsons won't ever be the same and poor jan hooks not knowing her time was soon gonna come to and end

This was on the SNL 25 years of laugh special.

Goddamn this is heartbreaking.

Bless you guys! Humor is a gift in itself, and those who give this gift are truelly precious 👍👍

Jon Lovitz is a gem, and so was Phil Hartman. RIP ❤

I'll never forget talking to my mom in our kitchen when we heard the CNN Breaking News theme (back when "breaking news" wasn't sensationalized). We ran in to see what was happening and were horrified when they said that Phil was murdered by his wife. That was over a quarter-century ago, but it feels like yesterday. ✌😞 ❤ Phil.

I don't know if it's posted, but they played Love is a Dream after Jan Hooks' death, too.

Obviously she was misdiagnosed.

Heartbreaking. And beautiful.

Yeah I remember because I was in 7th grade and that videogame Blasto just came out on Playstation and Phil Hartman made that videogame work (the game is crap, but his voice work is what makes the game memorable.) I remember the tragic death of Chris Farley and then here just 2 years later Phil Hartman learned the hard way to just stay unmarried or REALLY VET every woman that you let into your home.

I remember watching this live. And Spade intro'd a Farley tribute too and held it together like it was nothing - and I remember being like "Why didn't he react like Lovitz did? Were he and Farely not really friends?" I think that's just how he is though.

Don’t openly mock the Clintons 😅 rip Phil

Mike Myers had that face on when he was talking to Kanye.

I put on my best of Phil DVD today....Love Is A Dream started...my eyes filled with tears. 25 years later...dang

Phil Hartman was a funny guy and it's a shame he had to go out like that. His kids have grown up without both parents, but stuff like this happens when your spouse cannot handle the hard drugs, she is taking.

Everything I see with a young Mike Myers, he somehow looks both like he doesn’t know where he is, and looks like he does but just doesn’t wanna be there.

Ironic that the last person to speak was Jan Hooks, who also came to a tragic and premature end.

Much loved.

Phil Hartman was so funny on news radio

Love is a Dream is my favorite snl bit

500 billion people have been born and have died. We all will die and be forgotten, leave the world a better place is all you can do 👍🏽

He was supposed to be Zap Brannigan

All 3 ladies are a lil choked up. You can see Nora. The 3 other back men are still and cool.

Love love love this cast so much. One of the best. Phil was an absolute comedic genius. Thanks for still making me laugh in 2022, Phil!

Where was. Dana in that? RIP Phil!

Phil, you left us way too soon. One of my favorite SNL cast members. May you forever 🙏 ❤️ RIP....I hope your children are doing ok.

Hartman had a voice made of gold. I get nostalgic hearing anything in 90s Simpsons, brave little toaster, and kikis delivery service. He's a name I'll never forget

what a HUGE loss. immensely talented was Phil Hartman

I was in high school and bright eyed by the time I fell in love with Phil. Then I was off out of my mind when this all happened and heard about his passing while incarcerated. And even though I've been clear for over two decades, I just never could revisit this story. I never processed it. And whenever I end up stumbling back on it, it's almost like a new story, even though I of course know what happened.

Still one of the all time greats.

Hearing Jon break like that makes me very sad. U can clearly see he took it very hard.

Phil Hartman died on my 18th birthday. I remember was in a bloodmobile donating blood when I heard the news on the radio. Sad day.

This almost had me in tears 😭