Jon Lovitz Biography
Jon Lovitz is an American actor and comedian most recognized for his role as a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990, for which he received two Primetime Emmy nominations. Aside from SNL, he played Jay Sherman in The Critic and has had several parts on The Simpsons.
How old is Jon Lovitz? – Age
He is 66 years old as of July 21, 2024. He was born in 1957 in Los Angeles, California, United States. His real name Jonathan Michael Lovitz.
Jon Lovitz Family – Education
Lovitz was born to Harold and Barbara Lovitz. His family is Jewish and has immigrated from Romania, Hungary, and Russia. His paternal grandpa, Feivel Ianculovici, departed Romania in 1914. After moving to America, he changed his name to Phillip Lovitz.
Lovitz was friends with David Kudrow, Lisa Kudrow’s brother, during college and joined him on a backpacking journey through Europe and Israel in 1978. He earned a bachelor’s degree in drama in 1979 and went on to study acting under Tony Barr at the Film Actors Workshop.
Jon Lovitz Stand-up
In 2009, The Jon Lovitz Satire Club area on General CityWalk in Widespread Studios Hollywood opened. A comic short movie featuring Ken Davitian and highlighting Lovitz was recorded there, coordinated by Brent Roske and composed by Aaron Davitian. The Jon Lovitz Satire Club in Widespread Studios Hollywood was home to the main MMA Simmered standup parody show in 2009. On May 29, 2011, the name was changed to the Jon Lovitz Satire Club and Webcast Theater.
A debut occasion called Podammit was held, in which Kevin Smith facilitated an assortment of six digital broadcasts, incorporating In addition to One 3D with his better half, Jennifer Schwalbach; Hollywood Prattle On with Ralph Garman; and Jay and Quiet Weave Get Old with Jason Mewes; as well as The ABCs of SNL with Lovitz himself, a six-episode This Is Your Way of life personal meeting about Lovitz’s life and vocation. The Club occasionally facilitated other digital recordings, for example, Ransack Paulsen’s Talkin’ Toons (which hence left in October 2013). The Jon Lovitz Parody Club and Digital broadcast Theater shut on November 5, 2014.
In 2020, Lovitz featured in plugs for Playology, a brand of toys for maturing canines. They included him with vilifying young doggies, requesting senior canines to get their due. That very year he depicted legal counselor Alan Dershowitz on season 45 of Saturday Night Live with Adam Driver as the host playing Jeffrey Epstein. In 2023 he depicted U.S. Senator George Santos on The This evening Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Jon Lovitz Saturday Night Live
Lovitz’s most memorable stretch as a customary in a circumstance satire was that of Mole, a specialist for a New York City head prosecutor’s office, in the fleeting 1985-86 series Foley Square, featuring Margaret Colin. Lovitz was a cast individual from Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. He later said in a meeting for the book Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Experience that his experience on SNL was the most significant in his vocation. He went from having no cash to being offered a $500,000 film contract. He was named for an Emmy Grant his initial two years on Saturday Night Live.
One of his most prominent SNL characters was “Tommy Flanagan, The Neurotic Liar” who utilized an old Humphrey Bogart line “Definitely! That’s the trick!” as an expression to intersperse horrendously expounded unlikely untruths. His other repeating characters and pantomimes included Irritating Man, Expert Performer, Tonto, Mephistopheles, David Crosby, Harvey Fierstein, and Michael Dukakis. In a 1986 SNL episode, he depicted a virgin Nerd, who was prearranged to look down when asked by William Shatner in the event that he had at any point kissed a young lady.
Hanukkah Harry, quite possibly of Lovitz’s most noteworthy job, cast him in 1989 as a Jewish contemporary of St Nick Claus who lives on Mount Sinai and ventures to every part of the globe with a truck flown by three jackasses to give boring gifts to Jewish young men and young ladies. He is approached to fill in when St Nick becomes sick on Christmas Eve.
On February 15, 2015, on the Saturday Night Live 40th Commemoration Extraordinary, he was named by Steve Martin as one of the numerous SNL cast individuals who had kicked the bucket throughout the long term, with the camera slicing to show Lovitz’s response. Yet again later, his picture was found in a montage of expired SNL individuals, with the camera slicing to his presently “shocked” response.
Jon Lovitz Movies
♦ 2021 – Extinct
♦ 2021 – Tales of a Fifth Grade Robin Hood
♦ 2021 – Love on the Rock
♦ 2021 – Lacy’s Christmas Do-Over
♦ 2021 – Ace & the Christmas Miracle
♦ 2020 – Influence
♦ 2020 – Agent Toby Barks
♦ 2020 – The Swing of Things
♦ 2019 – Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls
♦ 2019 – Hooked
♦ 2018 – Bachelor Lions
♦ 2018 – Paws P.I.
♦ 2017 – Sandy Wexler
♦ 2017 – Killing Hasselhoff
♦ 2017 – Chasing the Blues
♦ 2016 – Mother’s Day
♦ 2015 – Hotel Transylvania 2
♦ 2015 – The Ridiculous 6
♦ 2015 – Bark Ranger
♦ 2014 – Birds of Paradise
♦ 2014 – Coffee Shop
♦ 2013 – Jungle Master
Jon Lovitz TV Shows
♦ 2023 – The Tonight Show
♦ 2023 – The Masked Singer
♦ 2021 – The Potwins
♦ 2021 – Paper Empire
♦ 2020 – Saturday Night Live
♦ 2020 – Bitmoji TV
♦ 2020 – Holey Moley
♦ 2020 – A.P. Bio
♦ 2019 – The Goldbergs
♦ 2019 – The Cool Kids
♦ 2019 – Jackie and the Next
♦ 2019 – Historical Roasts
♦ 2019 – Anything but A..Man..Da!
♦ 2018 – Insatiable
♦ 2018 – Mogulettes
♦ 2017–2020 – Funny You Should Ask
♦ 2017 – The New Celebrity Apprentice
♦ 2017 – Justice League Action
♦ 2016, 2018 – The $100,000 Pyramid
♦ 2016–2018 – Animals.