> “I got Saturday Night Live in ’85, and then ’86, they kept Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, and myself,” he explained. “Then that’s when Dana [Carvey] came in, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Janet Hooks and Victoria Jackson. So, I was in the show with Dana for four years, and we became like brothers. He’s one of my best friends.”
> Lovitz also considered Hartman his “best friend,” so when he was tragically murdered in 1998 at age 49, the comedian was devastated. Spade, 59, for his part, was also saddened by the unexpected death of his close friend Chris Farley, who died in 1998 at age 33 from an accidental drug overdose.
> “I said [to David], ‘Well, maybe we could become friends, because we’re both missing our other half … our best friends,’” Lovitz recalled. “[David] goes, ‘yeah.’ But I think because it was hard for me, it took a while, and then, one day, I played golf — and we were playing golf — and I could just tell one day, I don’t know what happened. I just knew in his mind that, ‘okay.’”
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> “I got Saturday Night Live in ’85, and then ’86, they kept Nora Dunn, Dennis Miller, and myself,” he explained. “Then that’s when Dana [Carvey] came in, Phil Hartman, Kevin Nealon, Janet Hooks and Victoria Jackson. So, I was in the show with Dana for four years, and we became like brothers. He’s one of my best friends.”
> Lovitz also considered Hartman his “best friend,” so when he was tragically murdered in 1998 at age 49, the comedian was devastated. Spade, 59, for his part, was also saddened by the unexpected death of his close friend Chris Farley, who died in 1998 at age 33 from an accidental drug overdose.
> “I said [to David], ‘Well, maybe we could become friends, because we’re both missing our other half … our best friends,’” Lovitz recalled. “[David] goes, ‘yeah.’ But I think because it was hard for me, it took a while, and then, one day, I played golf — and we were playing golf — and I could just tell one day, I don’t know what happened. I just knew in his mind that, ‘okay.’”
So Jon, I understand you’re growing older?