I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

He first appeared in the Season 1 episode "The One with the Stoned Guy" as a restaurateur who gets stoned on marijuana just prior to interviewing Monica Geller for a job. Film roles cameos and television guest appearances
In the late 1990s Lovitz was "the man who wrote the Yellow Pages" in a series of commercials and print ads for the American Yellow Pages industry. In 1998 Lovitz made a dramatic turn when he appeared in a small but pivotal role in Todd Solondz's film Happiness as a depressed socially inept man who publicly berates his date for thinking of him as nothing.

He is best known as a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1985 to 1990. Jonathan M. "Jon" Lovitz (born July 21 1957) is an American comedian actor and singer.