It haunts me to this day... I loved Newsradio and I lt died when Phil did. It makes me feel good to think that maybe Joe actually saw him and he was telling us it was all okay. If you remeber the twin towers were part of the introduction clips.... this show is just a marker of the decline of America and a time in New York when I felt really good about things. I miss 90's America so dreadfully.
@@davidimrie6916 He could have been anything. He had a news anchor voice and demeanor. He would have been a great gameshow host. He had musical chops. "Hi, I'm Troy McClure." Even though they were spoofing Doug McClure, it just epitomizes Phil's class and charisma in a humorous way. I would say Phil even had William Shatner's gravitas without the over-the-topness. Phil would have been a great alternate to Tim Allen in "Galaxy Quest."
97/98 were very bad years losing both Chris Farley & Phil Hartman. All of us who grew up watching their brilliance on SNL will always be pained by them being taken too soon; because they gave us so much joy and gut busting laughter.
John Belushi shocked me. I was in high school and had no idea he was a heavy drug user. They had no internet or social media back in 1981 and he was never arrested for drugs. It was a total shock, then find out years later about his drug use.
I had a marriage like this. Stayed for the kids. Slept by myself always concerned i may not wake up again. Had the courage to get the divorce. Went on for 3 years but i have peace now. And kids are with me. Too many guys out there afraid to make the decision
Women like this are narcissists. Its not greatly understood. The create chaos and emotional torture and enjoy the feeling of power it gives them to disturb people, even their own family. They lack empathy and compassion, they have no remorse and justify their loveless behavior to themselves.
I remember after the murder, Hartman's friends and colleagues never trashed talked the wife, for the kids sake. I thought that was so classy and mature. But after hearing this, I have even more respect for the people who loved him and his family.
She was an unsuccessful actress and was very bitter about her career. She took it out on Phil - loved the lifestyle but her insecurities made her mean. She coped with alcohol and drugs. Most of their friends thought it was the drugs that made her unstable and once she shot Phil there was no going back that day.
@@VirtualBilly yeah he didn't suffer but it's just that she shot him which is just whacked..to this day it's surreal and just is shocking and hurts that it happened.
Moral of the story: don’t get married if you have no intention of being a husband and a father. Phil never should have been married. He wasn’t the husband type. Do some research…. Phil was a terrible husband. He should have remained single but he wanted it all without doing the husband and father work. Phil would take vacations without his family … just get on his boat with his friends and go without a thought about his children or wife. He never should have gotten married. He was not interested I being a husband. On the other hand, Brinn used Phil to get an acting career going but she had no talent for it. Phil could only do so much for her in that area and she was jealous of his success. I feel bad for the kids.
@laurenurban3942 I like how you spend almost the entirety of your essay of a paragraph criticizing the victim, but only spend a couple of sentences lightly speaking poorly of the murderer. The woman responsible for those children not having parents anymore. Never victim shame
@laurenurban3942 So, you're justifying what that nutjob did? Did you ever think he might not have wanted to be around her? You do realize women can be just as abusive & suffocating as some men. What she did is absolutely atrocious!!
The final Simpsons episode he was in was the one where Bart hatches eggs that turn out to be lizards instead of birds and Principal Skinner and the other birdwatchers want to kill them
@bertmustin A slight decline perhaps but 10th season was still very good. And none of that is down to Phil Hartman, every appearance he made in that show was gold.
Do some research on both of them. Phil was not good husband or father material. I won’t go on… just do some serious research on both of them. Phil should have never been married… he wasn’t the husband type. And he spent very little time with his kids . Phil preferred to be on his boat with his buddies. The wife and kids were just for show. Please do some research….I’m not making this up.
@laurenurban3942 typical morden women making excuses for a evil woman killing her husband while sleeping. If roles were reversed you would NEVER make excuses for the man.
Phil Hartman did some of the best impersonations on SNL - Reagan, Clinton, Charlton Heston, Admiral Stockdale......he provided great comic relief during my high school years. RIP
Phil Hartman was a man no one ever said a bad word about. For a comedian-comedic actor, he came in to fame a little later in life, and maybe this grounded him. No one should ever leave us that young, but there was A LOT of sadness when he left us.
@@zrob89m21 What? I didn't say or suggest he took his own life. Stop reading into something that isn't there. His death was a terrible loss that is still being felt...is that better? Good grief.
He threatened his wife right before he went to bed. Instead of taking her to a rehab facility, he threatened her then goes to sleep. That was not a good move on his part and shows how detached he was to his own situation.
It wasn't the drugs, she was a failed actress with a psychotic jealousy of her talented and successful husband. She was over forty and being a mom wasn't good enough for her. She blamed him for her failures, and likely the kids barely escaped too.
Yes, he said as soon as the cops broke the door down, they ran, they sensed that they were is grave danger. It is so lucky the police got there in time.
Absolutely! I know her family felt better blaming a drug cocktail, but she was an AWFUL person in many ways-petty, jealous, resentful, angry-she had ZERO gratitude that she was healthy, had healthy children, and plenty of security where money is concerned. All that consumed her was being a failed actress and the more success Phil got, the angrier she got at him. What a toxic and miserable woman
it was absolutely the drugs my friend. I watched the exact same scenario play out between two friends a few years before it went down with Phil and his chick... ended the EXACT same way. Cocaine is a cruel mistress that sends people to very bad paranoid places. it was the drugs that caused the violent end. period
Phil was not an attentive father. He would have never gotten custody of they had divorced. He would take off for days without telling his wife or kids. That is what drove Brinn crazy… he was detached from being a husband a father. If there was something Phil wanted to do… he did it and would go off on a vacation without his wife and kids. Phil was not an attentive father in that respect. He would have hired babysitters and caregivers for the children while he went out on his boat.
I heard a story that David Hyde-Pearce was nominated for an Emmy in the same category as Phil not long after Phil died and he turned to the person next to him and said, "God, I hope I don't win". He did win and his acceptance speech was all about how embarrassed he was and how Phil should have won.
Hartman should've found a better lawyer to get total custody of the kids since their mother was a habitual cocaine user and mixing it with other drugs.
Phil would not have gotten custody because he was always an absent father out on his boat with his buddies. The kids would have been at home with a babysitter or a nanny raising them. That would have really angered Brinn and given her a good chance of getting the kids back after a divorce.
Used to watch my VHS tape of Small Soldiers a lot. The post credit scene is a blooper of Phil. "Was that too much?" "For Phil." I wasn't nearly as familiar with him back then, as a young pre-teen, but knowing what a master talent he was... It's tragic. So many tragic stories like that, of people just gone before their time.
One of his best character roles. Can’t see too many people making this character as successful. It would be easy to put an overtly handsome or wealthy guy into that role, and play off that. Instead he is like every man’s nightmare, always on time, listens intently and takes notes of everything a woman says, cooks, cleans, and plans ahead ferociously.
Imagine suing a drug company because it didnt mix well with your coke habit lmao. Like what the fuck warning are they even supposed to add to prevent that? That would be like suing a firearm maker because the gun jammed during your shooting spree.
Been on a bunch of different antidepressants. The warnings are there. Literally don't mix with anything. Not even alcohol, which is why I stopped taking them. Had to pick one. Maybe it was after this incident, but it seems obvious. You can't mix a substance that changes your brain chemistry with...anything. Right?
i wasn’t expecting that it’s been so long i’d forgotten ROGAN knew and worked with PHIL on that show..I’m thinking the other guy was going to do the talking about what happened and JOE would ask the questions..time really does change how your mind remembers things
At the time they were hucking Zoloft as a miracle cure for cocaine addiction and depression. They knew it was deadly. That is why it was prescribed. You must come to realize they believe your death is the cure. Your life is meaningless to them. Your weakness will be exploited in every way. Some Dr decided to get her to kill herself and he overshot her dosage to get the desired result and got him killed too. They knew what would happen when they prescribed it. I know that is hard to accept but it's true. Happens every day, all day.
I remember seeing this one other video with Jon Lovitz where he was saying it was Andy Dick who was feeding Brynn’s coke addiction which led her to doing what she did.
Newsradio is the most perfect relic of the 90's. We all felt better about things... we were more optimistic. This isnt nostalgia... it's fact. We were all happier. I loved NYC in the late 90's.. the city was getting its shit together, the yankees were winning.... And then Phil died and all shit started to roll down hill. He was just the first tragedy i remember in a long decline of American public life. 9/11 wasn't far off... and then it all was over and we were in the nightmare we are now. Remember, Newsradio had the Twin Towers in the intro. For me, the death of Newsradio was the first sign of the decline of the American empire.
He was a terrible husband and spent very little time with his kids. That is what drove the wife insane. Instead of forcing her into a rehab… he threatens her with taking the kids. Not a good move right before he goes to sleep. He was an awful husband but in no way does that justify shooting him. If I was Brinn, I would have divorced on the grounds of abandonment because that’s all Phil did… leave his family while he went out on his boat with friends. I would have gotten half his money and gone out to find a man who actually wants to be married.
"Uh-oh, we've drawn Judge Snyder" Marge: "Is that bad?" "Well he's had it in for me, ever since I kind of run over his Dog" Marge: "You did?" "Well, change the words 'kind of', with repeatedly & 'Dog' with Son" - Lionel Hutz, Attorney of Law.
In Oct 2016 My dad passed away at 47. Soon later I had a dream where he and I were laughing and talking in the living room of an old apartment he had in 2000. Our jovial conversation stopped the way it does when someone is ready to go. Silence broken by a “Well I guess I better hit the road.” type of way. But he didn’t say that he just stood up and smiled at me. Then he turned around and put on a leather jacket that he wore in his 20’s. At this point I started to cry because I knew why he was leaving. He opened the door to the apartment and it was pure white beyond the threshold. He turned to look back at me and told me he loved me. I screamed the same back at him as hard as I could and tried to formulate words of power to stop him from going. He studied me for a moment, it felt like he was proud of me. He turned for the last time and stepped out into the Light Ether and closed the door behind him. Then I woke up.
I had the same dream about my grandma 2 days after she passed. She was in a car she used to have and was wearing the clothes she died in. She was with a guy I described to my mom as never having seen before but she took down a box of pictures and showed me that that guy was my grandma's uncle, holding my grandma in the picture. Jaw fell on the floor, same guy. I guess he was her chaperone around heaven and he was allowing her to say her goodbyes to me within my dream. Her funeral was that day.
I had a similar experience as you both and Joe. A childhood friend and neighbor of mine died in a horrible construction accident, a beam was dropped on her from a crane. It ate away at me for a few days, I felt guilty that I hadn't gone back to visit her after I graduated, went to college, and moved away. I had a dream that we were back at my old childhood home, everyone from back in the day was there having a good time and enjoying a nice summer night and bonfire. It felt so real and like I literally went back in time. I was talking to my friend and crying telling her that I was so sorry for not visiting and that I was sorry to tell her that she passes away in the future in an accident. She smiled, hugged me, and told me that it was ok and she was ok. She turned, hopped on her horse and was gone like she just rode off into heaven. I woke up right after with tears on my face. This was years ago but I remember it so vividly like it was yesterday. The sense of peace I received from that dream was like nothing I have ever experienced.
Thank you for sharing. My ex died of an over dose years after I left him. I had a dream that him and I were at a dock house and we got into a row boat together. He was young, he said you'll have to swim back, I am so sorry, I made it out and you'll have to keep your head up okay kid? He handed me dusty horse reigns ( inside thing) when I woke up my feet were damp and my hands were dusty. Found out later that week he died three months prior.
I recall in another post Joe talking about Phil Hartman and I said I wasn't a huge Joe Rogan fan but I am now he's grown on me and he truly cares about life and earth. I remember Joe saying ," I have a picture of Phil on my mantle and I always stare at it and almost cry and remember how much I love and miss Phil" and that sold me on how much Joe cares about humans in general especially Phil Hartman. Hartman was a natural born genius and more. He could do it all. I cried when he died.Hartman was a special kind of special. Always makes me happy and smile.So much talent and super nice guy. I love Joe for how much he speaks of Phil Hartman because I don't think he gets enough credit for the contributions he's made to show business. He was a comedic genius. Thank you Joe for giving Phil Hartman his due credit. You're a special human being.
I super concur Joe starts out saying how many times he tried to help Phil divorce that skanky crazy wife. That's a true friend. just got out of the hospital I have a lot of medical conditions and one of my nurses super cool dude and we talked about how insane Phil's death was. Still seems insanely surreal. Still doesn't seem real.So she shot him just lost her mind shoots the super genius Phil Hartman then shot herself in in the head. Like WTF? I don't know I just can't believe it so many years later. Doesn't seem real.I loved Phil Hartman and miss him like there's no tomorrow.cSo much talent it was insane. Joe talks about him like they were brothers. He speaks so highly of Phil. Thank God for Joe Rogan. Such a warm heart for Phil. And he deserves all the love he has for him and praises his talent. The man was godly and such a good guy. One of Hollywood's biggest losses. @@wilfbreezy333
I know a person who was on antidepressants but chose to go on a meth binge anyway..he had a complete mental break he was in the mental health hospital for almost two years can’t mix those meds with certain street drugs
Phil Hartman was going to be so fucking huge, because Hollywood and SNL’s Lorne Michaels didn’t see it in the beginning and they kept rejecting him. Phil then started to grow as an improv performer and actor for fun and the experience. Then, Hollywood and SNL came knocking. His wife couldn’t handle him becoming the breadwinner over night and him becoming so famous so quickly. She became extremely toxic and Joe Rogan and many other cast mates saw her actions at the public events that the show would have. The jealousy got to her, she had an embarrassing coke problem and she snapped. Information is not clear, but she might’ve used two different guns to kill Phil with one, and then killing her self with a different gun. Very sad and tragic
No, people who felt shitty for not doing enough for their friend until it was too late blamed him instead of criticising themselves. She was a terrible person and the only one responsible for making her kids orphans.
@@stevenobrien557I agree so much yea he gave her the cocaine but that was like 6 months before like how fuck is anyone able to predict that like usually someone with drug experience can handle they shit
Dude I never knew this. Never thought enough to google what happened to him but always kinda wondered why I didnt see him in movies and shows anymore. Just figured he made his money and got out. Dang that freaking sucks man!!
Yeah, pretty messed up. I was so young but grew up around older family, I remember just being so bummed out. I was young, and it doesn’t all compute, but I’m like wtf… why him. 😢 still watch his vids and he was something else, grew to love him even more as an adult.
“Him letting me know not to freak out about it.” After my grandmother died, she appeared in my dream in a similar way; laughing and joking, assuring me she’s not dead, just somewhere else. Gave me closure and peace.
My mom was a cancer victim. She withered away to nothing. The last time I saw her alive, she was comatose. Just breathing, that's it. That night I had a dream that the family was together, hanging out, doing whatever. I have certain dreams where if I know I'm dreaming I'd alert myself and wake up. I told my mom 'mama, I know this isn't you. You're on a bed about to die." She told me "I know, but you need this." So we just hung out for the rest of the dream. 3 hours after I woke up I called my dad and my sister told me my mom died. Dreams are weird.
She hated him for ignoring her and the kids. Did you know that he would just leave the house and go out on his boat with his buddies and not even care about his wife and kids. I’ll bet that you didn’t know that. Do some serious research about both of them.
This was such a stunner . Phil Hartman was a creative genius . I am approaching 70 . I have some creativity . Everybody does but I am not a genius . I recognize it when I see it . Phil was a mega talent and how and why he left this world too soon still perplexes me .
One day I cleaned my pistol which I never did bc I never shot it. Something just said DO it so I did. Well I forgot to load it back up. The next morning I woke up and my ex had it pointed at my head and pulled the trigger. Luckily I didn’t reload it. I truly believe god was pricking me to clean that gun and not load it.
Phil leads in my favorite SNL skit as a bitter/angry old Sinatra. I still turn on the clip where he is the Alcatraz tour guard for a good laugh as well. He could pull of so many characters, and that's definitely missed in this world.
If you have to leave an abusive relationship, make sure they never know that you’re going to leave. Plan your escape in private with outside help. This applies to everyone, both men and women.
My ex gf told me a story about how her mom was on Zoloft and called her into her bedroom and had porn on (the mom was very religious so this was out of character) and she told my gf she needed to learn this stuff or I was gonna leave her. My gf was 19 I was 23 those brain chemical drugs do wacky things to you
Zoloft and other antidepressants have helped far more people than they have allegedly harmed. In fact, they’ve likely saved many lives, including my own. The characterization of these meds in popular media as “zombie” drugs is complete trash with no science supporting it. Movies, shows, etc., are just made more dramatic if the protagonist rages at the heavens how the drugs he/she is being “forced” to take are changing them in some horrible way. They certainly aren’t perfect, but they’ve been improved tremendously with every generation. If one doesn’t work, your doc can try another. Just don’t believe that just because these drugs work in the brain that they can make you berserk or something. Those cases are extreme outliers. If you were clinically depressed, would you rather get significant symptom relief and risk the remote possibility of side effects, or continue as you are? This risk vs. reward trade off is the same for every other drug in existence. I, personally, would rather stop taking every other med I’m on (for high blood pressure, diabetes, kidney failure, etc.) than I would stop the antidepressants I’ve been on for years, and without any significant side effects.
Please forgive me for making this about myself but I had a fiancée' and before the marriage she embarrassed me in public on purpose. I didn't scream or start a fight but shortly afterwards I called the marriage off and never saw her again.
Wise choice. Those once in a while "innocent" snark comments turn into regular passive-agressive remarks and then they turn into regular verbal and physical arguments, only to end up cold on a pillow.
I had a dream that Phil Hartman was flirting with me and his wife was mad. I woke up in the morning and heard that he had passed away due to a murder suicide. That was surreal.
The kids didn't see her do it. They were asleep as it was shortly before 3 AM. But the son Sean said he woke up to the gunfire, mistaking it for a door slamming.
Phil was dead inside the house for hours before the police showed up and Brynn killed herself. I think she came down from whatever she was on, called a friend and the friend called the police.
In the SNL intro, Phil is sitting in a booth with some people that are turned away and the earrings on the woman across from him are shaking because she kept trying to face the camera when they told her not to. Its his wife
She apparently shot him in the head while he was sleeping, then walked over to the neighbor's house and confessed, and that person called the police, then she walked back home and hung around till the police showed up.
RIP to Phil Hartman, I enjoyed him as a comedic actor and grew up with this man. I had to be 9 - 11 (no offense) when Hartman died but I remember how tragic it was. RIP to a beautiful soul.
I used to park my VW van right there, right by their house. I went to work one day and the cops still had the area cordoned off. I had no idea until my coworker told me.
I was a big News Radio fan. Still am being the owner of the all seasons on DVD. Phil shined on that show. The last seasons, S5 minus Phil felt empty. Hollow. Phil"s character, Bill McNeil was a big wedge of what made that show so great. All the other actors on the show can carey it but Phil was the cherry on top of the sunday. Still miss him. A huge loss to the world.
I've had those types of dreams too Joe. A cousin of mine sadly passed by overdose, but he had gotten in a fight earlier that day and turns out he had a rupture in his eye because his eye was red. A the odd thing is that, although we were around one another quite a bit bc my mom and her sis stayed close and thus all the kiddos did as well my cousin and I never really got along. We both had anger problems, were hot heads and outspoken. This was in the early 2000s, I was a young teen then. When it happened everyone was blown away at how sudden it was. But one night within the following months of his passing I dreamed of being at my parents country home where we always had family get-togethers. The house was the same, but the wrap around porch that was never fully finished in real life, was finished. The porch wrapped around the side into a large deck, had a lower floor, and stairs that descended into the backyard. I walked up the stairs towards the backdoor and noticed white tables, with white lawn chairs and instead of there being windows, they were replaced with french doors that opened to the livingroom. My cousin, who had passed was seated at the center seat directly in front of those doors. He didn't look sick, beaten, sad or angry like normal. He was so bright and smiling, genuinely peaceful. He said, "Hi Shanna". And then I woke up. I think that was his way of saying goodbye. I believe my grandmother who recently passed did the same thing. We were very close and I only ever knew her after a serious wreck that disabled her and she gained a lot of weight. But in the dream, once again we was at my families' home, but across the cow field in the neighbor's lawn. There were many people around, but I didn't look at any. I only saw her, she was young again and thinner. She smiled and without saying anything she said, "Hi Shanna." She looked so proud, then I woke up.
Jewish mysticism teaches that a deceased person’s spirit hangs around the body for 3 days after death before departing. 2000 years ago in Israel it was known that some people could come back to life within the 3 day period, by the 4th day the corpse would start to decay and the spirit went to Hades and there was no hope for life except through a miracle. A lot of these spiritual connections or dreams about the deceased happen within the 3 day period after passing away.
At least now we know we can discount that whole 'outta luck' part on the 4th day, since we start decaying immediately and w/o divine intervention, dead is dead.
I actually did not know that brynn talked to the kids right before she offed herself… with the gun in her hand…what a horrifying image. On top of murdering her own husband, she traumatized those poor babies and turned them into orphans overnight. Joe is so disgusted with her, that notice he never calls her by her name. He calls her “the wife” like she was a leech and a creature (rightfully so). Phil was so remarkable, he was the whole package. Great loss to the world.
If a soldier exhibits PTSD symptoms or even severe stress in a theater of operations, chain of command sees fit to take their weapon(s) away until further notice.
True. In my experience they took the bolt from the weapon so the weapon was inoperable but the Soldier wouldn't appear weaponless when they walked around.
