What I don’t understand is how nobody except Lovitz has beaten the crap out of him. Apparently, he wheels around LA, stoned out of his gourd, and harasses people, especially women, like the 17 YO in the story. Hasn’t he ever accosted one with a large husband or father close by? I mean, if he walked up and grabbed my wife’s tits, I’d sure as hell bank his ass in a white hot second.
This is also my favorite show of all time…and it’s mostly available for free on Hulu.
Oh god, please no one suggest to this attention whore that he go on Celebrity Rehab. I’m sure he’d only last 2-3 episodes at best before he got removed or removed himself, but it would be a nightmare for everyone else involved.
He did a guest shot as a hand model on “Just Shoot Me” that included these lines: Work is scarce right now. I don’t know why, but since leaving San Franscico I don’t seem to be getting as many hand jobs.
Tastes vary. Andy Dick was the reason I didn’t watch NewsRadio. To me, he ruined the show. The only physical humor I ever wanted to see was the scene in which he fell down an actual elevator shaft, without a net or a stunt double.
I like the Google ads I’m getting right now: there’s about 4 Andy Dick ads…and one ad to buy meathooks. Is the devil trying to tell me to put Andy Dick on some meathooks? Or is that just the neighbor’s dog?
Now THERE is an interesting combination of link names.
Speaking of NewsRadio, this has always been one of my favourite conversations, between Beth (Vicki Lewis) and Lisa (Maura Tierney):
Beth: [Y]ou? Cute? Come on.
Lisa: I am not entirely uncute. I… I… Why are you being nasty about this?
Beth: I’m not being nasty. You’re pretty. You’re very pretty, in fact. But cute, I don’t think so.
Lisa: Well, I wasn’t aware there was a difference.
Beth: Well, of course there’s a difference. Pretty means pretty. Cute means pretty but short and/or hyperactive-- like me!
Lisa: Uh-huh. What is beautiful?
Beth: Beautiful means pretty and tall.
Lisa: Gorgeous?
Beth: Pretty with great hair.
Lisa: Striking?
Beth: Pretty with a big nose.
Lisa: OK, you’re making this up.
Beth: That’s ridiculous, why would I make it up?
Lisa: Sexy?
Beth: Pretty and easy.
Lisa: Exotic?
Beth: Ugly.
Dick Andy before he dicks you.
Bryan, that’s some great dialogue. Thanks.
And you didn’t punch his face in because… ?
That’s the fight i want to see.
OK, but *this *is funny:
Thirding the brilliance of NewsRadio and IMO how endearing Andy Dick’s performance was within it. From listening to the cast/crew commentaries I have the impression that they had a very different (i.e., more positive) experience working with him than one might expect, considering what he’s turned into.
I could be the world’s biggest sap, but I really think Andy Dick has intense sorrow/ guilt / survivor’s guilt over first the David Strickland suicide and then Phil Hartman’s death, and he’s been in a self-destructive death spiral ever since. By all accounts he was incredibly broken up by Phil’s murder, and he’s remained broken ever since.
And while I know I’m in the minority, I think Lovitz’s blaming Andy for the latter murder was ridiculous. The only person guilty of that tragic crime was psycho Brynn Hartman. I don’t care if Dick gave her the cocaine; in no way did he know what she was gonna do on it. If he’s ‘bragging’ about it, I see that as a pathetic attempt to ‘own’ the guilt and turn it into outrage. He hates himself and seems to want others to do the same. Apparently he’s succeeded. Hey, at least that’s one success he’s had, post-NR.
Before anyone gets on my ass for being an apologist: I’m in no way, shape or form defending his behavior. His disgusting actions deserve appropriate punishment and I hope to God he gets it. But I also hope he gets treatment, both psychological and medical. Dude is heading towards an early grave. And unlike most people here, I think that would be yet another needless and undeserved tragedy.
Get your life together, Andy. What would S’matthew do?
He’s despicable slime, and I hope he has to register as a sex offender after he’s served at least 6 years in prison. Couldn’t have happened to a more appropriate dick.
I don’t think it’s ridiculous at all. It’s maybe a little overstated, but how do you even describe what Dick did in giving her drugs? “Asshole” doesn’t even begin to cover it, “depraved indifference” gets the gist of it but doesn’t have the charm. “Deserves to have the snot beat out of him by Jon Lovitz” is about right.
Depraved indifference? Maybe I’m missing part of the story, Marley23. (And I mean this sincerely, not sarcastically.) Did Brynn go up to Andy that night and say, “Gimme some blow, I really feel like killing my husband right now!” Or did he pass her the coke while whispering in her ear, “y’know, what’ll go great with this stuff? A gun and some hubby hunting!”
In fact, IIRC, he gave her drugs five months before the murders. He’s a cokehead himself, isn’t he? That’s what they do, idiot assholes that they are. But what she did months later on her own combo platter of coke, alcohol, Zoloft and general nuttiness is all on her. (Again, unless I’m very wrong about this, which is quite possible.)
There’s a wonderful delayed punchline to this.
Catherine walks by, having heard part of the conversation. She asks Beth to describe her.
“Sexy,” Beth says.
Not understanding, Catherine walks away with a big smile on her face.
Heh. Yeah, that’s the best part.
Nitpicky addition – there’s a line missing in that quote: Lisa also asks “Voluptuous?” Beth: “Pretty and fat.”
I agree. I definitely think Andy Dick is a useless freak who borders on criminal, but I don’t see how on earth he is to blame for Phil Hartman’s death. I realize people were shocked and saddened beyond belief, but blaming Andy is just ridiculous.
No one forced Brynn Hartman to snort the cocaine. That’s a decision she made for herself. And you can’t tell me that she’d never been around drugs at a Hollywood party in the ten years she was sober.