The Laugh Factory comedy club turned into a WWE-styled smackdown when bad blood between comics Jon Lovitz and Andy Dick turned violent. (AP Images)

 

The murder of comic Phil Hartman by the hand of his drug-addicted wife stunned the nation back in 1998. Hartman's "Saturday Night Live" colleague Jon Lovitz, holds comic Andy Dick personally responsible for giving Hartman's wife, Brynn who had been sober for 10 years, cocaine five months before the murder-suicide.

This long-time feud exploded last Wednesday night when Lovitz picked Andy Dick up and threw him into the bar.

Laugh Factory owner Jamie Masada, who witnessed the assault, said, "Jon picked Andy up by the head and smashed him into the bar four or five times, and blood started pouring out of his nose."

Lovitz told Page Six, "All the comedians are glad I did it because this guy is a asshole."

The feud between the comics began at a 1997 Christmas party held at Hartman's house five months before his death. Lovitz explained to Page Six:

"Andy was doing cocaine, and he gave Brynn some after she had been sober for 10 years. Phil was furious about it… and then five months later, he's dead."

Soon after, Hartman's wife, Brynn fell into downward spiral with drugs and killed Hartman before shooting herself.

Lovitz added that when he filled in on Hartman's "Newsradio" sitcom, "I told Andy, 'I wouldn't be here now if you hadn't given Brynn that cocaine.'"  

Lovitz also claimed that last year, Dick was intoxicated and walked over to his table in West Hollywood. After he downed Lovitz'sguests' drinks, he "looked at me and said, 'I put the Phil Hartman hex on you… you're the next one to die.'  I said, 'What did you say?' and he repeated it. I wanted to punch his face in, but I don't hit women."

Lovitz expected an apology when he ran into Dick at the Laugh Factory on Wednesday — however, Dick only smugly offered Lovitz a role in his next movie.

"I wanted him to say he was sorry for the 'Phil Hartman hex,'" Lovitz said. "First he says, 'I don't remember saying that.'  Then le leans in and says, 'You know why I said it?  Because you said I killed Phil Hartman.'  Which I never said. Then he asked me to be in his new movie."

"I grabbed him by the shirt and leaned him over and said, 'I don't want to be in your movie!  I don't want to be in your life!'  I pushed him against the rail. Then I pushed him again really hard. A security guard broke it up. I'm not proud of it…but he's a disgusting human being."

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