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To be fair Rogan is a raging dipshit that was not quite as funny as Andy Dick. How he achieved an actual following is mind boggling.
There are a lot of raging dipshits to make an audience out of.
Yeah fair point
Add Jon lovitz to the mix, and News Radio really spawned some characters. Yikes.
This strikes me as a particularly ahistoric take. I'd like to make two points in that regard.
News Radio was the biggest gig yet for both Joe Rogan and Andy Dick, who played main characters on the show from the start. Jon Lovitz was already well known from his time on Saturday Night Live -- arguably a higher-profile position than the one he took on News Radio.
Jon Lovitz wasn't spawned by News Radio, is my first point. To the contrary: Lovitz was brought onto the show as an established big-name talent after (his friend and fellow SNL alum) Phil Hartman died.
And how did Phil Hartman die? Phil Hartman was shot and killed by his wife, Brynn Omdahl, who struggled with substance abuse. According to Lovitz, Andy Dick was said to have shared cocaine with her at a Christmas party at Hartman's house.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lovitz-speaks-out-on-dustup-with-andy-dick/
After this on-set exchange, Lovitz and Dick were said to have made up and were able to work professionally together on News Radio. Later, however, when Lovitz was out at a restaurant, Dick came over to his table and invoked his ostensible involvement with Hartman's murder:
My second point is that, while Jon Lovitz maybe be a "character," he's an entirely different class of character than Andy Dick. (Or Joe Rogan, for that matter, just to pretend this whole long reply still has something to do with the actual OP topic.)
I appreciate the historical tome. I was simply enjoying some Christmas Eve cups of kindness and made a casual remark that I found marginally humorous with no anticipation that there seems to be a News Radio historical society out there.
I do not disagree with anything you said though I'm particularly bewildered with the depths you went with it all.
I never heard of Lovitz being a dick…hell, never heard anything about him at all after that Critic show he did.