Word: hartman
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Past recipients of the Lampoon award include John Candy, Mr. T and Robin Williams, as well as "Saturday Night Live" cast members Phil Hartman and Billy Crystal
...NEWSRADIO (NBC) At last a sophisticated sitcom about people who actually work rather than sit around all day chatting over coffee. With Phil Hartman as a self-centered radio newscaster, Dave Foley as a straitlaced news director and Andy Dick as a wired producer, the show carries on smartly in the Mary Tyler Moore tradition...
During the event, several Lampoon staffers came to the microphone wearing disguises to "protest" Hartman's award...
...student dressed as an attorney argued that Hartman portrayed lawyers on Saturday Night Live as incompetent and unable to remember the name of "that guy, you know, the one with the robe, who sits on high." He then accepted a five dollar bribe from the comedian to leave the stage...
...Phil Hartman is the man in comedy right now," Abbott said...