Phil Hartman, who had been a writer as well as a cast member for the winning season, marched in with an 8-by-10...

Phil Hartman, who had been a writer as well as a cast member for the winning season, marched in with an 8-by-10 photo of himself. It showed him cradling his Emmy Award in one arm and his newborn child in the other. He tossed the photo down in front of his good friend Jon Lovitz and said, “Check it out, Lovitz—two things you’ll never have.”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/09/24/phil_hartman_remembered_by_jack_handey_the_snl_writer_behind_unfrozen_caveman.html

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  1. Brian TakleSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:27 AM

    Ow, my chest.

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  2. Casey G.September 24, 2014 at 7:28 AM

    Phil will always be my favorite SNL performer.
    Always.

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  3. Keith SenkowskiSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:33 AM

    The Ronald Reagan bit where he is the doddering man one second then planning the invasion of Russia the next holds a special place in my heart.

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  4. Casey G.September 24, 2014 at 7:38 AM

    The Anal Retentive blank was one of those skits where if anyone else had been doing it, it would have been terrible. But those just got funnier and funnier as the skit went on because of Phil's timing.

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  5. Keith SenkowskiSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:41 AM

    The Sinatra Group... oh man brilliant.

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  6. Ralph MazzaSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:45 AM

    Keith Senkowski my all time favorite SNL moment.

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  7. Keith SenkowskiSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:47 AM

    I got chunks of guys like you in my stool

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  8. Ryan SheltonSeptember 24, 2014 at 7:49 AM

    Phil was murdered right around the time Princess Diana was killed. I felt Phil's loss much more than the Princess's. That's no  dig at those fan of Princess Diana.
    http://oh-whiskers.tumblr.com/post/23537680179/in-hard-to-find-footage-the-comic-powerhouse-phil
    Go to 2:30. This still gets me.

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  9. Teo MorganSeptember 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM

    I can't decide if it's a crime, or mercy that he never got to star in his own film based on a so-so SNL skit.

    News of his passing was a surreal moment for me. It just sounded so far fetched.

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  10. Casey G.September 24, 2014 at 10:59 AM

    Yeah, it was unbelievable.

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  11. Teo MorganSeptember 24, 2014 at 11:02 AM

    I seem to vaguely recall being a bit angry at the person who first informed me, as if they were jinxing him, or that it was horrible they could even think of such a thing.

    Thankfully I neither expressed my feeling, or actually killed the messenger. The proliferation of the net has made delivering such news a lot less perilous in any case.

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  12. James OlchakSeptember 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM

    Aw dammit. Sucks so bad.

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  13. Keith HoovestolSeptember 24, 2014 at 3:31 PM

    He was the all-time best SNL cast member.

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