i grew up with hartman on snl, simpsons. hell, he was half the reason the simpsons were so freakin popular. so many bit parts, cameos. he would have been great in the cartoon era of the 2000s.

amazing comedic timing, i would have loved to see him in things like 30rock.

i remember the day it was announced. i had to sit down, very upset. such a tragic story.

fuck andy dick

Spalding Gray (June 5, 1941 – c. January 11, 2004) was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors. Theater critics John Willis and Ben Hodges called Gray's monologues "trenchant, personal narratives delivered on sparse, unadorned sets with a dry, WASP, quiet mania.": 316 Gray achieved renown for his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, which he adapted as a 1987 film in which he starred; it was directed by Jonathan Demme. Other of his monologues that he adapted for film were Monster in a Box (1991), directed by Nick Broomfield....