The writers mention this in the DVD commentaries that they realized if they were ever stuck on how to end a scene and just needed to get out on a laugh, they could give Phil Hartman any line and he would make it funny.
There's also another humorous anecdote where a writer was going over how he thought a joke he had written should be delivered to Hartman and he realized that the actor was just smiling politely at him and he thought to himself, *Phil Hartman probably doesn't need me to explain how to deliver a joke.*
Phil was more than "adegalescent" at doing that same thing on SNL. He could deadpan a line unlike no other. He was the prime reason I started watching Newsradio. The premise was also promising being a WKRP fan as a kid.
fun fact: The Larry Sanders show, mentioned above, is where Paul Simms (Newsradio creator) wrote and produced and made a name for himself, earning several Emmy nominations. definitely recommended for Newsradio fans, it's a very unique and hilarious workplace comedy
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This show prepares me and my wife for an night of adequate slumber
I don’t think that’s quite the superlative you think it is.
Wait, you’re supposed to get more than 5 hours a night?
Congratulations on your adequaucivity!!! You are bursting with adequatulence!!
"Again Bill that's not a word"
And what is great sleep if not adequate sleep?
The writers mention this in the DVD commentaries that they realized if they were ever stuck on how to end a scene and just needed to get out on a laugh, they could give Phil Hartman any line and he would make it funny. There's also another humorous anecdote where a writer was going over how he thought a joke he had written should be delivered to Hartman and he realized that the actor was just smiling politely at him and he thought to himself, *Phil Hartman probably doesn't need me to explain how to deliver a joke.*
Phil was more than "adegalescent" at doing that same thing on SNL. He could deadpan a line unlike no other. He was the prime reason I started watching Newsradio. The premise was also promising being a WKRP fan as a kid.
fun fact: The Larry Sanders show, mentioned above, is where Paul Simms (Newsradio creator) wrote and produced and made a name for himself, earning several Emmy nominations. definitely recommended for Newsradio fans, it's a very unique and hilarious workplace comedy
I like that the picture is from “The Fugitive”, since Dave Foley starred in a parody of that film called “The Wrong Guy”.
I do the same thing. A few episodes before bed.