Less successful efforts included The Critic, which starred Jon Lovitz from Saturday Night Live ( originally airing on ABC then moved to Fox before being canceled ), and The PJs, ( which was later broadcast on The WB ).

Amadopoulos returned a few episodes later in " Homer at the Bat ", though in that episode he was voiced by cast member Dan Castellaneta rather than Lovitz.

Williams took the chance to duet with his long-time friend Jonathan Wilkes, Little Voice star Jane Horrocks, Saturday Night Live star Jon Lovitz, Rupert Everett and actress Nicole Kidman.

Indeed, Lovitz got his start with Hartman in The Groundlings.

" Lovitz first appeared on " Our Fiftieth Episode " when Bill meets him in a mental ward he was assigned to after resisting arrest due to an altercation with police for arguing with a meter maid.

At the 2010 Farmers Classic in Los Angeles, he teamed up with Michael Chang, playing against Jim Courier and comedian Jon Lovitz.

He is then driving in a snowstorm with Jon Lovitz, where Carvey says it was about time to put the Church Lady to rest and not make it a running gag.

He appeared in the 2000 movie Finding Forrester, as Dr. Simon and in a series of 1999 TV commercials, with Jon Lovitz, for the Yellow Pages.

Jon Lovitz performed a duet with Robbie Williams on Williams ' 2001 album Swing When You're Winning, in the song " Well, Did You Evah ".

In 1991, Lovitz appeared in the season six episode of Married ... with Children entitled " Kelly Does Hollywood part 2 " as sleazy Hollywood producer Mr. Littlehead.

On October 10, 2001, Lovitz sang a duet ( with Robbie Williams ) of the song " Well, Did You Evah!

A premiere was held, Podammit, in which Kevin Smith hosted a variety of six podcasts, which will remain with the theatre as a live base, including Plus One 3D with his wife, Jennifer Schwalbach, Comic-Con Babble-On Theatre with Ralph Garman and Let Us Act with Jason Mewes ( in which audience members voice-act / act alongside Garman and Mewes, reading from comic books and film scripts, respectively ), as well as The ABCs of SNL with Jon Lovitz himself, an ongoing ' This Is Your Life ' style biographical interview about Lovitz's life and career.

A television series based on the film aired on CBS in April 1993, with Garry Marshall, Megan Cavanagh, Tracy Reiner, and Jon Lovitz reprising their roles.

Thomas co-starred with John Cleese, Rowan Atkinson, Amy Smart, Seth Green, and Jon Lovitz in the Paramount feature Rat Race.

My Stepmother is an Alien is a 1988 American comedy science fiction film produced by the Weintraub Entertainment Group for release through Columbia Pictures, directed by Richard Benjamin and starring Dan Aykroyd and Kim Basinger, with featured performances by Jon Lovitz and Alyson Hannigan.

After a rejected suitor, Andy ( Jon Lovitz ), calls her shallow at the beginning of the film and then goes on to kill himself, Helen tries to set her up with other men.

The DVD, directed by American video director Jason B. Bergh, included interviews and exclusive performances and arrangements of many of the band's songs, including reworked versions of " One Headlight " and " 6th Avenue Heartache " as well as an amusing band interview with comedian Jon Lovitz.

With the exceptions of Miller, Lovitz, and Dunn, the new cast failed to connect with audiences.

Michaels angered most of his cast by ending the season with a sketch in which the cast ( playing themselves ) get caught in a fire, and Michaels chooses to rescue only Lovitz ( who had connected with audiences due in part to his popular characters the Master Thespian and the Pathological Liar with the catchphrase " that's the ticket !").

After the 1989-1990 season, Jon Lovitz left the show with the intent of focusing on a film career.

The 1985 – 1986 season proved to be a ratings disaster, and she was one of only five cast members who were not fired at its end ( the others were newcomers Jon Lovitz, A. Whitney Brown, Dennis Miller and longtime featured player Al Franken ).

Jon Lovitz participated in the DVD's audio commentary, alongside Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jeff Martin, and Hank Azaria.

Jean stated that Lovitz, who has voiced a variety of characters on The Simpsons before, is one of the staff's " favourite guest-stars.

Lovitz played Mike Johnson, a disgruntled former employee that had been fired and was threatening to commit suicide by jumping from the ledge outside Dave's office.

They left after season four to create The Critic, an animated show about film critic Jay Sherman ( voiced by Jon Lovitz ); the show was executive produced by The Simpsons co-developer James L. Brooks.

In 1994, Apatow served as consulting producer and staff writer for the animated comedy The Critic, starring Jon Lovitz.

He resembles the character Jay Sherman from The Critic as well as the actor who plays Jay Sherman, Jon Lovitz.

It was written by Steve Young, directed by Bob Anderson and features a cameo by Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman from The Critic.

Lovitz returned a second time in the fourth season opener " Jumper ".

Of the entire cast, only Dunn, Lovitz, and Miller returned when the 1986-1987 season rolled around.

Aykroyd himself often returned in guest appearances on the show throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s to impersonate Republican primary candidate Bob Dole, while Jon Lovitz appeared frequently in late 1980s episodes as Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.

* At Moe's, the four men seated are characters who have previously appeared on The Simpsons who have been voiced by Jon Lovitz:

Jon Lovitz made his fourth guest appearance on The Simpsons, this time as musical director Llewellyn Sinclair, as well as Llewellyn's sister, who runs the daycare.

Comedian Jon Lovitz, who played Llewellyn Sinclair and Ms. Sinclar, made his fourth guest appearance on The Simpsons.

In 2006, Lovitz was named the eighth best Simpsons guest star by IGN.

Max Louis got the job at WNYX because he is an old colleague of Bill McNeal ; a plot point that reflects the real-life fact that Jon Lovitz took the role in NewsRadio out of friendship for Phil Hartman.

When asked why he joined NewsRadio, Lovitz said that he's " doing this for Phil.

* There are two recurring villains: Cheapo ( voiced by Jon Lovitz ), the world's cheapest bad guy, and Queen Clitoris ( pronounced kli-TOR-is ), a woman who lashes out on society for her facial appearance.

"), featuring the band as themselves and also starring Jon Lovitz (' Saturday Night Live ', ' The Wedding Singer '), Craig Fairbrass ( best known for ' Eastenders ') and Laura Aikman ( star of the forthcoming ' Keith Lemon: The Movie '), this project sees the band moving from gold discs to the silver screen.

She and then Carvey are shot by the still-alive Jon Lovitz, who claims the Church Lady character for himself.

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.

In 1998, Lovitz made a dramatic turn when he appeared in a small but pivotal role in Todd Solondz's film Happiness as a depressed, socially inept man who publicly berates his date for thinking of him as nothing.

In 1984, Lovitz entered stand-up comedy for the first time in his career.

On November 8, 2007, Lovitz had the grand opening for his new comedy club " The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club at Aubergine " in the Gaslamp District in San Diego, California, sponsored by RR-Ex.

The Jon Lovitz Podcast Theatre will be the main recording studio for the Toadhop Network starting in early 2012.

* Jon Lovitz as Tom Baltezor, a competitor in the All-Star Banquet for the patch.

1985 was the year in which Jon Lovitz on Saturday Night Live created the " Tommy Flanagan, The Pathological Liar " character who claimed outlandish achievements for himself, culminating in the grand illusion that his wife was Morgan Fairchild.

When the film was written for Carvey and Lovitz, the original title for Bad Boys was Bulletproof Hearts.

* This season has the first real cast turmoil in nearly 5 years, as Jon Lovitz leaves the show for other acting opportunities and Nora Dunn is fired after boycotting the show hosted by Andrew Dice Clay.

Another guest star that appeared in the episode was actor Jon Lovitz, who provided the voice for Aristotle Amadopoulos and a minor character that appears in a soap opera.

Jon Lovitz was praised by IGN for his guest appearance as Artie Ziff.

The song is used as the theme song for the 1996 Jon Lovitz comedy-crime film High School High, and is also featured as a track in the Xbox 360 Kinect game Dance Central.

" Although he praised Lovitz ' return as Ziff, and though he did not consider it to be one of the season's worst episodes, Jacobson criticized it for not " hav a lot of zing.