31 Years Ago, Phil Hartman’s Final Days at 'SNL' Included One Ugly Backstage Fight

31 Years Ago, Phil Hartman’s Final Days at 'SNL' Included One Ugly Backstage Fight

By the time Phil Hartman decided to leave Saturday Night Live in 1994, he didn’t have the nicest things to say about his fellow cast members. In an Entertainment Weekly profile published in March of that year, Hartman was quoted as saying, “The shows are getting less sophisticated. There’s less political satire. The younger audience loves Adam Sandler.” Hartman went on to tell EW, “[Sandler] appeals less to the intellect and more to that stand-u…