Phil Hartman is just “next level” good. The German impressions 11:52 … what a beautiful riff on the the typical celebrity impression schtick so many of these comedian guys can do. That bit was really incredible. He was really incredible. What a loss. Gone too soon.
Interesting thing about Phil Hartman as well as Jon Lovitz, they both shined their brightest on SNL because outside SNL other people were writing their lines. Phil Hartman was a waste of talent on Newsradio. I liked the show overall but any sit-com zombie could have played that role.
An impression of a German impressionist doing American impressions is probably the most brilliant thing ever. God I miss Phil. What a talented and amazing individual.
After his Robin Williams impression he says "I was doing Robin aged 70 .. I was doing punchlines that make no sense." A sad bit of irony, since Robin didn't live that long.
It’s too bad he wasn’t in more movies. I wonder if he’d been in some Adam Sandler movies or at least some funny ensemble movies. He worked well playing in for others.
They told Andy Kaufman to do it again exactly the same if he could and he straight up did it even including his stutters and missteps from the first time. Genius.
He was insanely talented - I thought he was brilliant. I was so distraught when he was killed, I am still shaking my head as I write this....what an unbelievable loss for so many people who admired and loved his talent.
Phil Hartman, he could dance, sing, do great impressions and clever original characters- any accent, from any place or time- So gifted, handsome, brilliant, disciplined and kind((According to the few who knew him) He was also known for being “unknowable”, always in character… What a tragic example of how truth is stranger than fiction. hard to imagine or believe such a great man could wed such an incomprehensibly cruel psychotic beauty , who shared, destroyed ,and ended his life. RIP Phil Hartman, Still simply astonishing on every level.
@@icu3869 "How" you ask? Hartman's mother was the reason that Phil had such a late start in show biz. You learn EVERYTHING as a child under 5 (isn't that right, Ronald McDonald?) so Hartman picked what he thought he deserved. I'll bet that there were plenty of better matches for him.
@@icu3869 I didn't for one MINUTE find him to be "unknowable", but rather a warm, and wonderful person. We riffed off of each other but the sweetest guy you can imagine. Wife just hated herself; real tragedy. RIP, my friend.
Phil definitely put in the most prep and what great work he did…. so much range and linguistic mastery, and Dan was also my favorite. He did a lot of prep, he is so pleasing to listen to. He really made use of an early slip on his first news anchor monologue to switch to a new character and maintain that seamless pace throughout the rest of the audition it seems. His characters are more real than caricature. You can tell he watched so much tv. He is such a naturally curious and passionate person.
Loved Dan! Always thought he was brilliant! Should have achieved even greater success! Not that many roles that really allowed him to shine like he deserved! Like many of these SNL players, they were funniest when they created their own comedy! It was never as funny when they were just reading lines that others wrote!
He was definitely representing the average UFO spotter or abduction victim. The way he threw in all of the UFO Invasion negatively impacted the crab fishing was just hysterical.😊
Long time ago Michael Sarrazin guest hosted SNL. He and Dan Aykroyd did a sketch about two US-dwelling French Canadian hockey players who managed to get thrown in the Penalty Box at the same time so they could talk about old times. It seems they grew up together! The Quebecois was very thick!
I've watched a bunch of these auditions and the funniest thing I've seen is Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz goofing around together. "What's the word on the street!?"
Hard to believe that half of them of gone now. And it's not like they passed recently, they left us while they were still in their prime. So sad. On a more upbeat note, the amount of talent in these clips is absolutely staggering. I'd love to see more SNL auditions.
Andy Kauffman, grew up watching him, alwayws perplexed by him. Mensa, went to a top 5 college undergraduate. Never understood how ahead of his time he was. Now at 57, I get it.
The Kaufman audition is so breathtaking. He does a comedy skit, and it is a poem, with every single micro expression identical. It is so creative to think to bring that.
It's lyrics for Macarthur Park, a popular song of the 60s. I dunno, it's like if we watched a Will Forte's audition and he recited some Limp Bizkit or some dumbass song lyrics in a slow voice. Doubt people would call that genius
NBC, SNL and Lorne Michaels owes their nearly 50 year success and a huge debt of gratitude to the woefully underrated Second City troops and the enormous cavalcade of household-named comedy stars and greats…
I disagree. #1. Hartman did Jack Nicholson in German and then again here -> 14:00 Hartman also coukd do a better John Wayne than Marion Morrison ever could BONUS : Hartman''s came without the drinking, beating women and definitely without all that loving (real) war despite the fact that Marion Morrison only fought them in the movies.
@@bravocharlie639 If you'd ever cared to research it, you'd know Wayne made every effort to get himself into WW2 (despite being well into his 30s), but was thwarted by others at every turn. It was the great regret of his life. The rest of your slander is beneath comment. By the way, I agree that the wonderfully talented Phil Hartman was even better for his ability to do the impressions in German.
John Belushi's Brando was really good, but Hartman and Aykroyd are on another level. I'm guessing Danny watched him some Jonathan Winters growing up. Those two made themselves indispensable. They are what SNL needs for performers.
Andy Kaufman was like lightning in a bottle. They probably wondered what they were supposed to do with him, lol. Looks like Dana Carvey was doing his brother Brad when he was Garth on Wayne's World. What an incredible collection of characters Dan Ackroyd did.
This video got Belushi's name wrong on the top corner of the video. The audition was John Belushi, not Jim Belushi; John's younger brother was also an actor. Jim Belushi was also on Saturday Night Live, but from around 1983 to 1985.
The first time I ever saw Dana Carvey was when a 1980s sketch comedy show on Nickelodeon called Turkey Television aired parts of his stand-up routines. The bit at 6:28 was one of them. I don't think he's ever mentioned that show before because on his podcast he said he was never on TV before SNL, which wasn't true. I was excited to see him in his first SNL episode because I thought he was hilarious in those few bits that I'd seen on the Nick show.
Phil Hartman is one of the greatest entertainers to have ever walked this planet. Those bits were amazing concepts by themselves, never mind the execution of his performances. We lost one of the greatest to ever do it.
yup, my favorite album when I was younger was America - History: America’s Greatest Hits, had no idea at the time he designed that, Poco Legend and Steely Dan Aja!
I have taught college students for 19 years. There was one young woman in my class about 15 years ago, about 20 years old. She asked the strangest questions and made the weirdest questions. The students and I all thought she was stupid for almost a whole semester. Then I read this brilliant, hilarious answer to a discussion question on a test. It was so bizarre. It finally occurred to me that she was as brilliant as Andy Kaufman, seriously. She had played a character for an entire semester. Amazing.
@@MarvinMonroe The whole class thought she was weird when she asked those questions. She wa a comic genius. Funniest student I have ever taught. She was great.
Dana Carvey was so nervous! It's so good that Lorne saw something in him because that audition alone wouldn't seal the deal nowadays, but we would've missed out on some amazing characters and impressions!
Nope. Not nervous (he surely was) but the nervousness you are seeing is schtick/charm nerves. It was part of his act for the audition to come off as 'cute.'
Well, Lorne did see Dana's stand up act in LA (about an hour), so I"m sure this video didn't add or subtract a whole lot to Dana's chances. BTW, Lorne also brought along Brandon Tartikoff (president of NBC at the time) to see Dana's stand up before hiring him.
Aykroyd's Southerner UFO sighting monologue and Czech-scientist talking about the geographic column were so good. Man, SNL bringing in Carvey and Hartman in '86 saved the show. Such talents in this video.
Phil Hartman is just “next level” good. The German impressions 11:52 … what a beautiful riff on the the typical celebrity impression schtick so many of these comedian guys can do. That bit was really incredible. He was really incredible. What a loss.
Gone too soon.
Interesting thing about Phil Hartman as well as Jon Lovitz, they both shined their brightest on SNL because outside SNL other people were writing their lines. Phil Hartman was a waste of talent on Newsradio. I liked the show overall but any sit-com zombie could have played that role.
Exactly what I was thinking
An impression of a German impressionist doing American impressions is probably the most brilliant thing ever. God I miss Phil. What a talented and amazing individual.
@@GreasyMcNasty Freaking amazing, unique, smart... and really funny! RIP.
Dana Carvey’s impressions are impeccable!! Especially Jimmy Stewart 🤣
After his Robin Williams impression he says "I was doing Robin aged 70 .. I was doing punchlines that make no sense." A sad bit of irony, since Robin didn't live that long.
Wish Hartman had the time to make more movies. He was a master actor, and impeccable timing.
I can do any accent just calling out go ahead…..huh?…. Oh I don’t do that one.. (when does it)🤌
The guy was tailor made to be a voice actor.
It’s too bad he wasn’t in more movies. I wonder if he’d been in some Adam Sandler movies or at least some funny ensemble movies. He worked well playing in for others.
Jim Belushi sure does an amazing impression of his brother John.
i think that is john. i wonder if they knew and left it like that lol.. he wasnt much on that show.
I was looking for this comment.
This typo made me unreasonably annoyed
I know it's John!
Well put.
They told Andy Kaufman to do it again exactly the same if he could and he straight up did it even including his stutters and missteps from the first time. Genius.
Graphic says " Jim Belushi" but that was John.
Phil Hartman was the Elvis of comedy. The natural confidence, talent and SWAGGER was unbelievable. 👑
He was insanely talented - I thought he was brilliant.
I was so distraught when he was killed, I am still shaking my head as I write this....what an unbelievable loss for so many people who admired and loved his talent.
Phil Hartman had more talent than most of the SNL casts that have followed him, what a tragic loss.
Ok I knew Phil Hartman was brilliantly funny but damn, his audition was beyond next level compared to all the rest
Phil was much better than any of the others.
Phil Hartman, he could dance, sing, do great impressions and clever original characters- any accent, from any place or time- So gifted, handsome, brilliant, disciplined and kind((According to the few who knew him) He was also known for being “unknowable”, always in character… What a tragic example of how truth is stranger than fiction. hard to imagine or believe such a great man could wed such an incomprehensibly cruel psychotic beauty , who shared, destroyed ,and ended his life. RIP Phil Hartman, Still simply astonishing on every level.
@@icu3869 "How" you ask? Hartman's mother was the reason that Phil had such a late start in show biz. You learn EVERYTHING as a child under 5 (isn't that right, Ronald McDonald?) so Hartman picked what he thought he deserved. I'll bet that there were plenty of better matches for him.
@@icu3869 I didn't for one MINUTE find him to be "unknowable", but rather a warm, and wonderful person. We riffed off of each other but the sweetest guy you can imagine. Wife just hated herself; real tragedy. RIP, my friend.
My gosh Phil Hartman was such an amazing talent. So sad he's not with us anymore.
Dan Aykroyd and Phil Hartman's auditions were the best! Such geniuses!
Exactly what I thought.
I wonder if his UFO story was real, I know he's into UFO stuff.
Dan Akroyd's story that is.
Canadians. ❤️
Hartman’s German celebrity impressions are a slice of quite genius .
They are fantastic!
@@LiberalsArePoop Oh, and, Hartman was a liberal. But anyway.
@@jallen4458 yeah, but back then, Liberals weren't unhinged like they are now. I was a Liberal back then.
@@jallen4458 And now he's dead.
This is gold. I love the German John Wayne and when Lovitz’s character smells his hand after shaking hands. Thanks for posting
Phil was so confident -- dude knew he was the funniest person in the room in almost every single room he ever walked in to.
Lorne could’ve cut Phil Hartman off 20 seconds into his audition “Ok. You’re hired”
Phil definitely put in the most prep and what great work he did…. so much range and linguistic mastery, and Dan was also my favorite. He did a lot of prep, he is so pleasing to listen to. He really made use of an early slip on his first news anchor monologue to switch to a new character and maintain that seamless pace throughout the rest of the audition it seems. His characters are more real than caricature. You can tell he watched so much tv. He is such a naturally curious and passionate person.
Wow, Phil Hartman was totally in charge of the situation.
The man was a comedic gem!!!!!😪
Phil Hartman’s IQ must have been insanely high. He was incredible.
Richard Brown That too!
@cate ouch!!!!!!!!
Reading my mind
@Dickie Brown eq is a myth.
May have been high when conceived, but to remember all that, gotta se sober & focused. He's sooo damned funny
The German Jack Benny impersonation was so random and so good.
Phil had such a great tv voice
He did so many characters on the Simpsons.
@@jackno7danls I’m Troy McLure! You may know me from…
Man, the way Danny Aykroyd went seamlessly from character to character without a breath, wow.
yea he was epic... Him, Dana, and Hartman were in a league all in their own. Wheres all the woman though? lol Their auditions are hidden.
Ditto, my favorite.
Loved Dan! Always thought he was brilliant! Should have achieved even greater success! Not that many roles that really allowed him to shine like he deserved! Like many of these SNL players, they were funniest when they created their own comedy! It was never as funny when they were just reading lines that others wrote!
He was definitely representing the average UFO spotter or abduction victim. The way he threw in all of the UFO Invasion negatively impacted the crab fishing was just hysterical.😊
Long time ago Michael Sarrazin guest hosted SNL. He and Dan Aykroyd did a sketch about two US-dwelling French Canadian hockey players who managed to get thrown in the Penalty Box at the same time so they could talk about old times. It seems they grew up together! The Quebecois was very thick!
Young Andy Kaufman! WOW. . . Loved Dana Carvey, too, but I think of him as Bush (and Perot), Garth, and Church Lady.
Hi I’m Troy Mclure!! Phil Hartman had such a great voice!
I've watched a bunch of these auditions and the funniest thing I've seen is Phil Hartman and Jon Lovitz goofing around together. "What's the word on the street!?"
Phil was an incredible talent
Andy Kauffman was an SNL character himself.
RIP Phil Hartman, the greatest of all time
Love Phil Hartman
His ending breaks my heart 😢
Phil Hartman already looked like he was on SNL doing a skit
the bit with Lovitz was eventually turned into a skit. Lovitz talked about this in his "Fly On The Wall" Phil Hartman tribute episode.
Phil Hartman was so unbelievablly talented.
"You haven't lived till you've pantsed a catatonic cat burglar" Legend RIP
Hard to believe that half of them of gone now. And it's not like they passed recently, they left us while they were still in their prime. So sad. On a more upbeat note, the amount of talent in these clips is absolutely staggering. I'd love to see more SNL auditions.
Aykroyd and Hartman were relentless with the number of characters and transitions!
Ditto my favorites
Andy Kauffman, grew up watching him, alwayws perplexed by him. Mensa, went to a top 5 college undergraduate. Never understood how ahead of his time he was. Now at 57, I get it.
I think John Belushi's eyebrow skills are magic and still do, and also Dan is perfect at esentially being a reporter AND a commercial salesman.
That was Jim Belushi, read the upper left corner of the screen.
That was John...good ol' John.....Good to see him again.
I agree! I mean; usually the corporate media Anchors only $ell us the news. They leave the rest to someone else.
I thought that was my unique talent.
My dad used to show me clips of John when I was a kid. Both are the reason I have independent eyebrow movement today
The Kaufman audition is so breathtaking. He does a comedy skit, and it is a poem, with every single micro expression identical. It is so creative to think to bring that.
Iv never understood his comedy,until iv seen this.im crying its so funny
I didn’t really get what he was doing but it seemed very creative
It's the lyrics to Macarthur Park, a Jimmy Webb song.
He was a total weirdo.
It's lyrics for Macarthur Park, a popular song of the 60s. I dunno, it's like if we watched a Will Forte's audition and he recited some Limp Bizkit or some dumbass song lyrics in a slow voice. Doubt people would call that genius
What gets me is Belushi showing up for the biggest audition of his life with a nose full of blow. That's commitment.
Dude was sniffing like a fool. Look up Chevy doing an impression of John blowing his nose (squeak squeeeeeak)
Who cares. Drugs are common. Most movies we see the actors are on coke. Especially in comedy. Let's move on shall we
Why does it say Jim?
@@jonasthemovie Because some goofball responsible for the text has NO freaking idea who one of the biggest starts of the day was.
That’s compulsion and addiction, which deserves commitment-of the inpatient sort.
NBC, SNL and Lorne Michaels owes their nearly 50 year success and a huge debt of gratitude to the woefully underrated Second City troops and the enormous cavalcade of household-named comedy stars and greats…
The Lovitz/Hartman duo was a step beyond SNL sketch comedy to improv theater
They were both master thespians lol. Great chemistry
Phil Hartman was hillarous also what a great idea to do impressions in “german” so it doesn’t have to be perfect
I disagree. #1. Hartman did Jack Nicholson in German and then again here -> 14:00 Hartman also coukd do a better John Wayne than Marion Morrison ever could BONUS : Hartman''s came without the drinking, beating women and definitely without all that loving (real) war despite the fact that Marion Morrison only fought them in the movies.
@@bravocharlie639 If you'd ever cared to research it, you'd know Wayne made every effort to get himself into WW2 (despite being well into his 30s), but was thwarted by others at every turn. It was the great regret of his life. The rest of your slander is beneath comment.
By the way, I agree that the wonderfully talented Phil Hartman was even better for his ability to do the impressions in German.
6:32 Dana Carvey does an incredible impression of Shia LaBeouf
Also the early versions of garth from what I hear
John Belushi's Brando was really good, but Hartman and Aykroyd are on another level. I'm guessing Danny watched him some Jonathan Winters growing up. Those two made themselves indispensable. They are what SNL needs for performers.
you mean Jim? ;)
Phil Hartman was always five steps ahead
he played chess with bobby Fischer... they use to have tea on 42nd and Washington.
Well.... not always...
I like watching these knowing that the people in the studio watching weren't supposed to laugh, at Lorne's instruction.
Andy Kaufman didn't blink a single time during the Superman bit. Not once.
Andy Kaufman was like lightning in a bottle. They probably wondered what they were supposed to do with him, lol. Looks like Dana Carvey was doing his brother Brad when he was Garth on Wayne's World. What an incredible collection of characters Dan Ackroyd did.
Phil Hartman blows away the hacks on SNL. This guy crushed it.
Kaufman's face when someone off-camera laughed at his MacArthur Park "oh no."
Hartman's German John Wayne was perfect.
Phil Hartman was A diff Animal Man ...his Talent was on Another level .
Phil Hartmann can take all the time he'd like from me. RIP
This video got Belushi's name wrong on the top corner of the video. The audition was John Belushi, not Jim Belushi; John's younger brother was also an actor. Jim Belushi was also on Saturday Night Live, but from around 1983 to 1985.
Went through all.the auditions. PHIL HARTMAN's audition was beyond incredible. Any one who ever turned that man down was an idiot. What a talent!
Hartman's German actually sounds like he was able to speak some.
His birthname is Hartmann, so I think he had some background in the language.
At 7:14, the Robin Williams impression was quite good.
agree!!! makes me sad when he says Robin at 70 :(
Didn't realize garth was an impression of Danas brother
Phil Hartman, legend
Phil Hartman was so good.
26:00 -- How ironic that Dan Aykroyd is doing a bit about extraterrestrial aliens.
Phil huge I fluence of 1930 and 40 s movies. Loved it
I wonder if Bryan Cranston and Phil Hartmann ever met.
Thanks for making this available. Any chance you can correct the "Jim Belushi" error? That is John Belushi, of course.
The first time I ever saw Dana Carvey was when a 1980s sketch comedy show on Nickelodeon called Turkey Television aired parts of his stand-up routines. The bit at 6:28 was one of them. I don't think he's ever mentioned that show before because on his podcast he said he was never on TV before SNL, which wasn't true. I was excited to see him in his first SNL episode because I thought he was hilarious in those few bits that I'd seen on the Nick show.
Dana created Garth from his brother? Wow
Kaufman, Belushi and Hartman are such great losses.
Phil Hartman. What a loss.
Phil Hartman is one of the greatest entertainers to have ever walked this planet. Those bits were amazing concepts by themselves, never mind the execution of his performances. We lost one of the greatest to ever do it.
You could make a solid argument that Aykroyd, Belushi, Hartman and Carvey are 4 of the top 10 funniest SNL cast members ever.
100% agree. any "Mount Rushmore" of SNL *has* to include Aykroyd and Hartman
Not too bad for an album cover designer…. Phil Hartman. But seriously, he was the greatest. RIP
yup, my favorite album when I was younger was America - History: America’s Greatest Hits, had no idea at the time he designed that, Poco Legend and Steely Dan Aja!
It’s weird seeing all these comedians nervous. SNL was a great launching point for many a great actor
John belushi made me feel the anxiety of all of my coke binges. Felt scary
Aykroyd's Tom Snyder impression was hilarious and one that's probably lost in history
Man! Jim Belushi was really great at John impressions!
Yes, because it WAS John! No comparison.
RIP Andy Kaufman. SNL wasn't ready for this guy in 1975, no one was. I still don't think we've caught up to him
I have taught college students for 19 years. There was one young woman in my class about 15 years ago, about 20 years old. She asked the strangest questions and made the weirdest questions. The students and I all thought she was stupid for almost a whole semester. Then I read this brilliant, hilarious answer to a discussion question on a test. It was so bizarre. It finally occurred to me that she was as brilliant as Andy Kaufman, seriously. She had played a character for an entire semester. Amazing.
M Loftin That is incredible! Did you ever talk to her about it?
@@mloftin6472 I don't believe a word you wrote. What kind of professor would think a student is stupid for asking offbeat questions?
@@MarvinMonroe The whole class thought she was weird when she asked those questions. She wa a comic genius. Funniest student I have ever taught. She was great.
@@BbGun-lw5vi I actually sent her a message via social media a few years later and told her I kept the incredibly funny discussion question answer.
I honestly think the Phil Hartman years were SNLs finest work.
Phil Hartman didnt miss a beat that stun gun commercial was crazy
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Dana Carvey was so nervous! It's so good that Lorne saw something in him because that audition alone wouldn't seal the deal nowadays, but we would've missed out on some amazing characters and impressions!
I felt like we saw the origin of Garth
Nope. Not nervous (he surely was) but the nervousness you are seeing is schtick/charm nerves. It was part of his act for the audition to come off as 'cute.'
Always been a fan of Dana! He should have had more projects! Very talented!
@@davidbrasfield6720- you did. Dana has said many times on his recent podcast that Garth was basically his younger brother.
Well, Lorne did see Dana's stand up act in LA (about an hour), so I"m sure this video didn't add or subtract a whole lot to Dana's chances. BTW, Lorne also brought along Brandon Tartikoff (president of NBC at the time) to see Dana's stand up before hiring him.
Dana Carvey had an amazing audition
So Garth was based on Dana’s younger brother Brad.
Where is Chris Farley's audition? I bet that was epic!
I'd love to see that.
He didn't have one. Didn't need it
Kaufman was unbeatable, and Hartman was the show's best and comedy's best character comedian.
Phil was the GOAT of SNL cast members..a quarter century later, still impossible to believe what happened to him. rip Troy...
Phil Hartman had talent for miles, perhaps the most SNL worthy performer ever.
Dana Carvey is brilliant.
Phil hartman’s German impression bit is genius.
Miss ya Phil....you are a very funny man.
That's John Belushi at 19:40, not Jim Belushi. Someone in the audience even yells out, "John, don't do that again".
Aykroyd's Southerner UFO sighting monologue and Czech-scientist talking about the geographic column were so good. Man, SNL bringing in Carvey and Hartman in '86 saved the show. Such talents in this video.
You must change that: after Hartman thats John Belushi not his brother Jim Belushi
Little known fact, it was the second of the three Dan Aykroyds that got the part in ghostbusters.
Nothing annoyed me more than when they called JOHN Belushi Jim
John belushi was also a comedian but that was actually Jim belushi his brother
I’m pretty sure that was John because at 22:02 you can hear a guy say “John don’t do that again”
@@jmartin1774 id go ahead and look it up if I were you he does have a brother and they were both comedians
@@cjoe5977 That was John.
@@cjoe5977 hilariously demonstrates he doesn't know much whilst trying to demonstrate he does: a smartarse 😂
It’s actually John Belushi not Jim Belushi like it says.
Phil Hartman = Genius.
God, this just had me cracking up watching them improving!!
It seems so awkward to be in that room trying to kill when nobody even gives you a customary chuckle.
Belushi had a serious case of the sniffles there. Wonder why?
Versatility there 😢😂 from Andy Kauffman.
19:38 Jim Belushi’s impression of his brother is flawless, I think we can all agree?
So good, in fact… they gave the job to John!
It's a good thing the people at Dana Carvey's audition didn't know Yorkshire is nowhere near London, in location or accent!
Yeah. Oh well, comedic licence.
Hartman said, "Space, the last frontier". Any trekki would freak out.