Hollywood Deep

Apparently, as reported by the New York Post’s Page Six, comedian Jon Lovitz beat up Andy Dick at The Laugh Factory in West Hollywood, last week.

July 17, 2007 — IT was fight night at an L.A. comedy club last week when Jon Lovitz roughed up Andy Dick over the murder of their “Saturday Night Live” colleague, Phil Hartman.
Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, “Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or five times, and blood started pouring out of his nose.” Lovitz told Page Six, “All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is a [bleep]hole.”
Lovitz and Dick have been at loggerheads since a 1997 Christmas party at Hartman’s house, five months before his troubled wife Brynn flipped out, fatally shooting Hartman, then killing herself. “Andy was doing cocaine, and he gave Brynn some after she had been sober for 10 years. Phil was furious about it – and then five months later he’s dead,” said Lovitz, adding that when he filled in on Hartman’s “Newsradio” sitcom, “I told Andy, ‘I wouldn’t be here now if you hadn’t given Brynn that cocaine.’ ”
Last year, Lovitz related, a drunken Dick strolled up to his table at Ago in West Hollywood, rudely downed his guests’ peach liqueur drinks, and “looked at me and said, ‘I put the “Phil Hartman hex” on you – you’re the next one to die.’ I said, ‘What did you say?’ and he repeated it. I wanted to punch his face in, but I don’t hit women.”

First of all I’ve worked with Andy Dick, on the horrible IFC TV show, “The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman”. It seems like the only shows Andy Dick does are horrible and unfunny shows. My experience was that Andy Dick was in fact a dick. He thought who the hell he was, like he was a real celebrity or something. I suspected that he was on drugs from the second he stepped on the set, and he made my job more difficult having to chase him around. His talent or lack of it, certainly was not worth the trouble.
I find Jon Lovitz to be funny, and my experience with him (a one day shoot on the Danny DeVito movie “Matilda”), was that he was a great guy. Still, to hear that two comedians had a fight, is funny in itself.
I’m glad Dick got his ass kicked, it was probably as funny as he’s been at The Laugh Factory, in years.
By the way, the AGO, in West Hollywood, were they first had words, is one of my favorite restaurants in West Hollywood. Partly owned by Robert DeNiro, Ago is one of the best Italian restaurants in LA.
What a Dick…TOTALLY!

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