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| − | [[File:Jon Lovitz.jpg|right|thumb|Jon Lovitz]] | + | {{Gstarnav}} |
| − | '''Jonathan M. Lovitz''' (born July 21, 1957) is an American actor and comedian perhaps best known as a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' and the voice of Jay Sherman in ''The Critic''.
| + | {{Guest Star |
| | + | |name = Jon Lovitz |
| | + | |image = [[File:Jon Lovitz.jpg|200px]] |
| | + | |gender = {{Male cast}} |
| | + | |birth = {{birthdate|1957|7|21}} |
| | + | |death = |
| | + | |nationality = American |
| | + | |claim = Actor<br>Comedian |
| | + | |character = |
| | + | |appearance = "[[The Way We Was]]" |
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| − | == Early life ==
| + | '''Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz''' (born July 21, 1957) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He has voiced various characters in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. |
| − | Lovitz was born in Tarzana, California to a Jewish couple.<ref>http://www.filmreference.com/film/59/Jon-Lovitz.html</ref> He attended and studied theater at the University of California at Irvine and graduated in 1979. He studied acting with Tony Barr at the Film Actors Workshop. He became a member of The Groundlings comedy troupe where he befriended Phil Hartman and Paul Reubens. His father was an immigrant from Albania who lived in Jacksonville, Florida, and later moved to California. | |
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| − | == Career ==
| + | Jon Lovitz was voted 8th in [[IGN]]'s [http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/730/730566p1.html "Top 25 Simpsons Guest Stars"]. |
| − | === ''Saturday Night Live'' ===
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| − | Lovitz was a cast member of ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1985 to 1990. He later said in an interview for the book ''Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live'' that his time on ''SNL'' was the most memorable in his career. He went from having no money to being offered a $500,000 movie contract. He was nominated for an Emmy his first two years on ''Saturday Night Live''. One of his most notable ''SNL'' characters was "Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar" that generated the catch phrase, "Yeah! That's the ticket!" Some of his other recurring characters included Master Thespian, Tonto, Mephistopheles, Hanukkah Harry, and Michael Dukakis. | |
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| − | === Voice over work ===
| + | He performed "[[Stop the Planet of the Apes I Want to Get Off]]" at ''[[The Simpsons Take the Bowl]]''. |
| − | Lovitz has lent his voice to several cartoons and films. In the series ''[[The Critic]]'' he played the title character of Jay Sherman. On ''[[The Simpsons]]'' he played [[Marge Simpson|Marge]]'s ex-prom date Artie Ziff, theater director Llewellyn Sinclair (and his sister, who runs a daycare center) on the season four episode "[[A Streetcar Named Marge]]", Jay Sherman from ''The Critic'' in the Season 6 crossover episode "[[A Star Is Burns]]", and paparazzo Enrico Irritazio in the season eighteen episode "[[Homerazzi]]". He also played Professor Lombardo and Aristotle Amadopolous.
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| − | === Movie cameos and television guest appearances === | + | == Credits == |
| − | In the late 1990s, Lovitz was "the man who wrote the Yellow Pages", in a series of commercials and print ads for the American Yellow Pages industry.
| + | === Special guest voice === |
| | + | {{Scroll|width=78%| |
| | + | *{{ep|The Way We Was}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Brush with Greatness}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Homer Defined}} |
| | + | *{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}} |
| | + | *{{ep|A Star Is Burns}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Hurricane Neddy}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}} |
| | + | *{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Homerazzi}} |
| | + | *{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}} |
| | + | *{{ep|YOLO}} |
| | + | *{{ep|The Princess Guide}} |
| | + | *{{spec|The Simpsons Take the Bowl}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Puffless}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Fears of a Clown}} |
| | + | *{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}} |
| | + | *{{ep|From Russia Without Love}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Daddicus Finch}} |
| | + | *{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}} |
| | + | *{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}} |
| | + | }} |
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| − | He also had an uncredited cameo as a rival crooner to Adam Sandler in the movie ''The Wedding Singer''.
| + | === Performer === |
| | + | *{{alb|Songs in the Key of Springfield}} |
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| − | Lovitz has also appeared on ''Friends'' twice. He first appeared in the Season 1 episode "The One with the Stoned Guy" as a restaurateur who gets stoned on marijuana trip just prior to interviewing Monica Geller for a job. He reappeared years later in the Season 9 episode "The One with the Blind Dates", where it is revealed that he lost his restaurant due to a drug problem.
| + | === A big special thank you === |
| | + | *{{alb|The Simpsons: Testify}} |
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| − | He also appeared on ''Seinfeld'' as Gary Fogel, a man who lies about having cancer ("The Scofflaw") and later dies in a car accident.
| + | == See also == |
| | + | *{{Voices}} |
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| − | Lovitz guest-starred twice on ''[[Newsradio]]'' as two separate characters before becoming a cast member in the show's final season (playing a third character).
| + | == External links == |
| | + | *{{IMDb|name/nm0001484/}} |
| | + | *{{Wikipedialink}} |
| | + | *{{Twitterpage|realjonlovitz}} |
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| − | === Broadway theatre ===
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| − | He has appeared on Broadway at the Music Box Theatre in Neil Simon's play ''The Dinner Party'', taking over the lead role from Henry Winkler. He sang at Carnegie Hall three times (including Great Performances' ''Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall'') and sang the national anthem at Dodger Stadium and the U.S. Open.
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| − | On October 10, 2001, Lovitz sang a duet (with Robbie Williams) of the song "Well, Did You Evah" at the Royal Albert Hall in the UK. The recording can be found on the ''Swing When You're Winning'' album.
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| − | === Stand-up comedy ===
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| − | In 2005, Lovitz entered stand-up comedy for the first time in his career. He also appeared in the film ''The Producers'' as the strict accounting firm chairman, Mr. Marx. In 2006, he became the spokesperson in an advertising campaign for the Subway restaurant chain. He was dropped from the campaign later that year by [[Fred De Luca]] after test audiences and a number of phone calls and letters deemed him not funny enough to cause people to eat. {{Fact|date=October 2007}}
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| − | On [[May 31]], 2007 the [[Laugh Factory]] on [[Sunset Strip]] announced that Lovitz had signed a deal to appear there every Wednesday night for the rest of his life. Or, Lovitz could appear in [[New York]] if he is there on a project such as a movie. In addition, Lovitz will write a Laugh Factory blog giving advice to up-and-coming comedians. Lovitz commented "Who knows? I could become the [[Don Ho]] of [[Los Angeles]]," he said. "God knows I've got enough [[Hawaiian shirts]]".<ref>http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=cdc5216b-4a43-48d0-89cd-65bbf8c763af</ref>
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| − | == Confrontation with Andy Dick ==
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| − | On July 11, 2007, Lovitz got into a violent confrontation with fellow comedian Andy Dick at the Laugh Factory. Lovitz had long blamed Dick for reintroducing [[Phil Hartman]]'s wife Brynn to cocaine (after 10 years of sobriety) just five months before she would murder her husband and commit suicide. Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada said, "Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or five times, and blood started gushing out of his nose." Dick had previously said to Lovitz he would "put the 'Phil Hartman hex' on you - you’re the next one to die."<ref>http://www.nypost.com/seven/07172007/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm</ref> Lovitz told ''Page Six'', "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is an asshole." He has not commented further. Lovitz succeeded Hartman on the comedy series ''NewsRadio'' following Hartman's murder; Dick was a co-star.
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| − | Recently, Lovitz was on the 97.1 Morning Show. When he was asked about the Andy Dick incident, he replied ,"Oh, I just call him A. Dick."<ref>http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=85cde3f0-f86d-41d2-bbd2-deee6b84c48f&f=00&fg=copy</ref>
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| − | == Filmography ==
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| − | === Films ===
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| − | |Hamburger The Motion Picture
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| − | |1986
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| − | |''Security Guard''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Last Resort
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| − | |1986
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| − | |''Bartender''
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| − | |Jumpin' Jack Flash
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| − | |1986
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| − | |''Doug''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Ratboy
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| − | |1986
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| − | |''Party Guest''
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| − | |-
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| − | |¡Three Amigos!
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| − | |1986
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| − | |''Morty''
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| − | |-
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| − | |The Brave Little Toaster
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| − | |1987
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| − | |''The Radio'' (voice)
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| − | |-
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| − | |Big
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| − | |1988
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| − | |''Scotty Brennen''
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| − | |-
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| − | |My Stepmother is an Alien
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| − | |1988
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| − | |''Ron Mills''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Cranium Command (short subject)
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| − | |1989
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| − | |''Right Cranium''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Mr. Destiny
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| − | |1990
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| − | |''Clip Metzler''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Tales from the Crypt
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| − | |1991
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| − | |''Barry Blye''
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| − | |An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
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| − | |1991
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| − | |''T.R. Chula''
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| − | |A League of Their Own
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| − | |1992
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| − | |''Ernie Capadino''
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| − | |Mom and Dad Save The World
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| − | |1992
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| − | |''Emperor Todd Spengo''
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| − | |Loaded Weapon 1
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| − | |1993
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| − | |''Becker''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Coneheads
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| − | |1993
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| − | |''Dr. Rudolph, Dentist'' (uncredited)
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| − | |City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
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| − | |1994
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| − | |''Glen Robbins''
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| − | |North
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| − | |1994
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| − | |''Arthur Belt''
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| − | |Trapped in Paradise
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| − | |1994
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| − | |''Dave Firpo''
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| − | |The Great White Hype
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| − | |1996
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| − | |''Sol''
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| − | |Matilda
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| − | |1996
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| − | |''Million $ Sticky Host''
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| − | |High School High
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| − | |1996
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| − | |''Richard Clark''
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| − | |The Wedding Singer
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| − | |1998
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| − | |''Jimmie Moore'' (uncredited)
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| − | |''Banjo-Kazooie''(Promotional Video)
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| − | |1998
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| − | |''Narrator(Voice)''
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| − | |Happiness (film)|Happiness
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| − | |1998
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| − | |''Andy Kornbluth''
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| − | |Spyro the Dragon (video game)
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| − | |1998
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| − | |''Tomas, Oswin, Cosmos, Zane, additional voices (voice)''
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| − | |-
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| − | |Lost and Found
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| − | |1999
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| − | |''Uncle Harry''
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| − | |Small Time Crooks
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| − | |2000
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| − | |''Benny''
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| − | |Little Nicky
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| − | |2000
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| − | |''Pepper''
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| − | |Sand
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| − | |2000
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| − | |''Kirby''
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| − | |3000 Miles to Graceland
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| − | |2001
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| − | |''Jay Peterson''
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| − | |Cats & Dogs
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| − | |2001
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| − | |''Calico'' (voice)
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| − | |-
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| − | |Rat Race
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| − | |2001
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| − | |''Randall 'Randy' Pear''
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| − | |Good Advice
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| − | |2001
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| − | |''Barry Sherman''
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| − | |Eight Crazy Nights
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| − | |2002
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| − | |''Tom Baltezor'' (voice)
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| − | |Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
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| − | |2003
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| − | |''Sidney Wernick''
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| − | |The Stepford Wives
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| − | |2004
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| − | |''Dave Markowitz''
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| − | |Pancho's Pizza (short film)
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| − | |2005
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| − | |Bailey's Billion$
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| − | |2005
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| − | |''Bailey'' (voice)
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| − | |The Producers
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| − | |2005
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| − | |''Mr. Marks''
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| − | |The Benchwarmers
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| − | |2006
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| − | |''Mel''
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| − | |Southland Tales
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| − | |2007
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| − | |''Bart Bookman''
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| − | |Farce of the Penguins
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| − | |2007
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| − | |''My eyes are up here Penguin'' (voice)
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| − | |I Could Never Be Your Woman
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| − | |2007
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| − | === Television ===
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| − | ! Show !! Years !! Role
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| − | |''Saturday Night Live''
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| − | |1985–1990
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| − | |various
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| − | |''Seinfeld''
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| − | |1989–1998
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| − | |'Gary Fogle' in [[The Scofflaw]]
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| − | |''[[The Simpsons]]''
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| − | |1991-
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| − | |''[[Llewellyn Sinclair]], [[Ms. Sinclair]], [[Professor Lombardo]], [[Enrico Irritazio]], [[Artie Ziff]], [[Aristotle Amadopoulos]], and [[Jay Sherman]]''.
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| − | |''Friends''
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| − | |1995 & 2003
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| − | |''Restaurant owner who interviews Monica Geller and later goes out on a date with Rachel Green''
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| − | |-
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| − | |''[[The Critic]]''
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| − | |1994–1995
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| − | |''[[Jay Sherman]]''
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| − | |''NewsRadio''
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| − | |1998–1999
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| − | |''Max Louis'', ''Fred'',<ref>http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001484/filmoseries#tt0112095</ref> and ''Mike Johnson''<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsradio#Cast</ref>
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| − | == Characters ==
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| − | *[[Llewellyn Sinclair]]
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| − | *[[Ms. Sinclair]]
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| − | *[[Professor Lombardo]]
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| − | *[[Enrico Irritazio]]
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| − | *[[Artie Ziff]]
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| − | *[[Aristotle Amadopoulos]]
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| − | *[[Jay Sherman]]
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| − | ==References==
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| − | {{Reflist}}
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| | {{Simpsons Cast}} | | {{Simpsons Cast}} |
| | + | {{Season 2 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 3 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 4 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 6 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 18 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 24 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 25 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 26 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 27 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 29 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 30 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{Season 31 Guest Stars}} |
| | + | {{The Simpsons Take the Bowl performers}} |
| | + | }} |
| | + | {{DEFAULTSORT:Lovitz, Jon}} |
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| − | {{DEFAULTSORT:Lovitz, Jon}}
| + | [[Category:Recurring guest stars]] |
| − | [[Category:Guest stars]] | + | [[Category:Songs in the Key of Springfield crew]] |
| | + | [[Category:The Simpsons: Testify crew]] |
Jon Lovitz at the Internet Movie Database
Jon Lovitz at Wikipedia
Jon Lovitz at Twitter
