I was listening to Lovitz recount this brawl yesterday on Dennis Miller's radio show. He sounded so calm and mild mannered...
War of the clowns
Dylan Welch
July 18, 2007 - 2:10PM
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 a**hole," he said.
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.
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.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/war-of-the-clowns/2007/07/18/1184559843259.html
War of the clowns
Dylan Welch
July 18, 2007 - 2:10PM
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 a**hole," he said.
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.
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.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/people/war-of-the-clowns/2007/07/18/1184559843259.html
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