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...What it is is they laugh at everything a super-handsome guy says. On SNL when hosts would come in who were super-handsome...
...happiness a facade? Says SNL producer Lorne Michaels: "I'm not sure how well people really knew him. There was much more to him than appeared on the surface. I don't mean he was hiding anything as much as he was always very cool and pro." For someone known for his smirking Jesus, Hartman had a surprising piety. As he dealt with his father's death from Alzheimer's disease in April, he told the Catholic News Service, "Our faith prepares us for what lies ahead and tells us that it's a mystery to us, and we tremble...
...clues, except to Hartman's groundedness. "I'm kind of surprised someone of his stature lived over here," said the owner of a nearby shopping mall after the murder. "This is the wrong side of Ventura Boulevard for a celebrity." The perspective pervaded his late-blooming career. After leaving SNL in 1994 and despite landing a deal with NBC to star in his own sitcom, Hartman chose to join the underrated ensemble show NewsRadio in 1995, a project he continually championed and protected. At the time he said, "I have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams--financially and the amount...
...Franken joined the first cast of SNL after he was discovered at a comedy show in Los Angles. He became famous on SNL in the late '70s with his skit "Al Franken Decade," which told the audience how current events would affect him. He was also the creator of Stuart Smalley, an unlicensed therapist character...
Franken has been at SNL for 23 years, with a few breaks in between to pursue outside endeavors...