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 ).

" 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.

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.

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.

Lovitz ( who played Satan in a December 1988 Church Lady sketch ) pathetically asks if he can now play her ( Lovitz ' stalled career was a running joke on SNL the season after his official departure ), but is interrupted by heavy snow flurries crashing the car.

Lovitz was a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990.

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.

A comic short film starring Ken Davitian (' Borat ') and featuring Lovitz was filmed there, directed by Emmy nominee Brent Roske and written by Aaron Davitian.

On May 29, 2011, the name was changed from The Jon Lovitz Comedy Club to The Jon Lovitz Podcast Theatre.

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.

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.

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 ).

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 August 2010, Garman and Smith started recording Hollywood Babble-On at Smith's SModcastle theater ; the podcast was subsequently moved to the larger capacity Jon Lovitz Podcast Theatre, formerly known as the Jon Lovitz Comedy Club.

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.

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.

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

" DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson thought the episode was a " fine program ", and added that Lovitz made Artie " amusingly annoying ".

Jonathan M. " Jon " Lovitz ( born July 21, 1957 ) is an American comedian, actor, and singer.

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

High School High is a 1996 comedy film about an inner city high school in the Los Angeles, California area, starring Jon Lovitz, Tia Carrere, Mekhi Phifer, Louise Fletcher, Malinda Williams and Brian Hooks.

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.

When he is blown off by his father, North officially decides to divorce himself from his parents, hiring lawyer Arthur Belt ( Jon Lovitz ) to do so.

* 1984 – Jonathan D. Lovitz, American actor, singer, and dancer

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.

In House of Mouse and Mickey Mouse Works, Mortimer as Mickey's rival is voiced by Maurice LaMarche doing an exaggerated impersonation of Jon Lovitz.

* Max Louis ( Jon Lovitz ) is Bill McNeal's replacement in season five.

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.

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

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

Lovitz ' character is called Fred by an orderly, but introduced himself as " Ulysses S. Grant 18th President of the United States " to Bill.

Several other actors appeared in multiple seasons playing different characters, notably Lovitz, David Cross, Toby Huss, David Anthony Higgins, Dave " Gruber " Allen and Bob Odenkirk.

At the urging of her brother's childhood friend, comedian Jon Lovitz, Kudrow began her comedic career as a member of The Groundlings.

* 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.

Her recurring characters on Saturday Night Live included, " Salena ," a socially inept girl who tries to ask out her boyfriend, " Biff " ( played by Jon Lovitz ), who is also socially inept.

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

The evening's presenters included Bob Costas, Robert De Niro, Danny DeVito, Jimmy Fallon, Whoopi Goldberg, John Goodman, David Letterman, Jon Lovitz, Rob Reiner, Paul Shaffer, Martin Short, Joe Torre, Barbara Walters and Robin Williams.

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.

Hanukkah Harry is a fictional character on Saturday Night Live played by Jon Lovitz.