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.
Read MoreWhat if I told you that there was a magical movie that combined mind-blowing stunts, rock and roll, wizards, the devil and Phil Hartman’s film debut? That might much too good to be true but it all came together in 1978’s Stunt Rock, possibly the greatest movie ever made.
Read MoreI revisit the notorious Saturday Night Live episode that gave a grateful world the magical phrase, “Some of y’all are not washing your ass properly!”
Read MoreMany Saturday Night Live hosts have sucked, but none more than Steven Seagal.
Read MoreWhy do some celebrity deaths hit us harder than others?
Read MorePhil 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.
Read MoreYou know what movie has aged beautifully? Joe Dante’s wonderful, timely and prescient 1998 satire Small Soldiers.
Read MorePhil 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
Read MorePhil 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.
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