Phil Hartman Month — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

There are more respectful ways to honor the great Phil Hartman on the anniversary of his death than by rerunning this piece on Houseguest but it's the one we're going with

Phil Hartman Month kicks off with a loving appreciation of the wonderfully idiotic 1995 interracial buddy comedy Houseguest, which paired the beloved Saturday Night Live funnyman with goateed 1990s jokester Sinbad.

The Second Civil War (1997)

Phil Hartman Month closes on a high note with a fond look back at Hartman’s hilarious performance as a ragingly ineffectual President of the United States in 1997’s The Second Civil War, Joe Dante’s almost eerily prescient political and media satire about a near-future US driven to the point of civil war over the issue of immigration.

Phil Hartman MonthNathan RabinJune 29, 2020Dick Miller, Phil Hartman, Film, James Coburn, Beau Bridges, Denis Leary, Joe Dante, Satire

G.I Jokers Case File #165 Small Soldiers (1998)

You know what movie has aged beautifully? Joe Dante’s wonderful, timely and prescient 1998 satire Small Soldiers.

This Looks Mediocre! Sgt. Bilko (1995)

Phil Hartman is great as always as the revenge-crazed antagonist in the slickly entertaining if terminally glib 1995 feature film adaptation of the classic television sitcom. Sgt. Bilko

This Looks Mediocre!, Phil Hartman MonthNathan RabinJune 23, 2020Film, Phil Hartman, Dan Aykroyd, Andy Breckman

Money Chasing Case File #163 Greedy (1994)

Phil Hartman is hilarious as a villainous schemer in Jonathan Lynn’s muddled 1994 flop Greedy, which starts out mean and strong and quickly loses its way.