Jon Lovitz

Lovtiz got his big break when he was invited to join the cast of Saturday Night Live. Immediately after learning that he'd been cast, Lovitz drove straight to Randy Bennett's class and shouted, "I got it!" Upon hearing the news, Bennett burst out in tears. Lovitz remained part of the SNL cast for five years, from 1985-1990, and during that time he created some of the most memorable and inventive characters in the show's history: Tommy Flanagan the Pathological Liar, Shakespeare ham Master Thespian,… Show more Hanukkah Harry, and impersonations of Michael Dukakis and Harvey Fierstein. After leaving the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1990, Lovitz enjoyed continued success as an actor on film, stage and television. He turned in a memorable performance as a baseball scout in the 1992 film A League of Their Own, then went on to feature in such acclaimed comedies as The Wedding Singer (1998), Small Time Crooks (2000), Little Nicky (2000), Rat Race (2001), and The Producers (2001). With his performance in Small Time Crooks, Lovitz fulfilled a childhood dream of working with his idol Woody Allen. A year later, he fulfilled another childhood dream when Neil Simon invited him to join the Broadway cast of his play The Dinner Party. Lovitz says, "Woody cast me in Small Time Crooks and actually told me to add what I wanted in my dialogue. Woody Allen was letting me improvise! And Neil Simon personally asked me to do The Dinner Party.

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