Editing Jon Lovitz (section)

===1993–2008: Post-SNL, ''The Critic'' ===
From 1998 to 1999, he was cast to replace [[Phil Hartman]] on ''[[NewsRadio]]'' upon the latter's death. Lovitz has lent his voice to several cartoons and films. In ''[[The Critic]]'', he played the title character [[List of The Critic characters#Jay Prescott Sherman|Jay Sherman]] (using his regular speaking voice). He has made several appearances on ''[[The Simpsons]]—''as [[Marge Simpson|Marge]]'s prom date [[Artie Ziff]] in "[[The Way We Was]]", the art teacher in "[[Brush with Greatness]]", theater director Llewellyn Sinclair and his sister who owned a daycare center in "[[A Streetcar Named Marge]]", and numerous other appearances, including the character of Jay Sherman in the episode "[[A Star Is Burns]]", a crossover with ''The Critic''. He was also the voice of Radio in the Hyperion-produced, Disney-distributed animated film ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', and that of T.R. Chula the tarantula in [[Amblimation]]'s ''[[An American Tail: Fievel Goes West]]''.

In the 1990s, Lovitz voiced the [[M&M's#M&M's characters|Red]] M&M in commercials for [[M&M's]]. Between 1999 and 2000 Lovitz appeared in a $33 million advertising campaign that featured a series of television commercials promoting the [[Yellow pages|Yellow Pages]]. The comic premise was to present Lovitz as the Yellow Pages' author. One of them featured Lovitz saying, "The hardest thing to do is to come up with a simple idea that is also great. And I just thought, 'Oh, the alphabet!'"<ref>{{cite news |title=Lovitz returns as the face of the Yellow Pages |first=Rebecca |last=Landwehr |url=http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2000/02/14/newscolumn1.html |newspaper=Denver Business Journal |date=February 13, 2000 |access-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-date=January 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113043015/http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2000/02/14/newscolumn1.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Jon Lovitz's Yellow Pages |url=http://www.demko.com/cb981222.htm |website=Youth'n Up! |access-date=January 10, 2017 |archive-date=January 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113050414/http://www.demko.com/cb981222.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

Lovitz performed a duet with [[Robbie Williams]] on Williams' album ''[[Swing When You're Winning]]'' (2001), in the song "[[Well, Did You Evah!]]". On October 10, 2001, Lovitz sang the song at the [[Royal Albert Hall]]. He also performed on the TV series ''[[Two and a Half Men]]'' singing "Save the Orphans" and beating Charlie ([[Charlie Sheen]]) out of the award for best jingle writer. He has appeared on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] at the [[Music Box Theatre]] in [[Neil Simon]]'s play ''[[The Dinner Party (play)|The Dinner Party]]'', taking over the lead role from [[Henry Winkler]]. He sang at [[Carnegie Hall]] three times (including Great Performances' ''Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall'') and sang the [[The Star-Spangled Banner|national anthem]] at [[Dodger Stadium]] and the [[US Open (tennis)|U.S. Open]].

Lovitz began his stand-up career in 2003 at the [[Laugh Factory]] in Los Angeles.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Renner|first=Michael|title=Jon Lovitz – Biography, Movies, Life Story|date=April 9, 2021 |url=https://successtitan.com/jon-lovitz/|url-status=live|access-date=April 13, 2021|archive-date=April 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413201825/https://successtitan.com/jon-lovitz/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Rotter|first=Joshua|date=July 6, 2015|title=Jon Lovitz Loves Stand-Up, Acting, and Singing — But Not in That Order|newspaper=SF Weekly|url=http://archives.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/07/06/jon-lovitz-loves-stand-up-acting-and-singing-but-not-in-that-order|url-status=live|access-date=October 16, 2016|archive-date=October 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018201828/http://archives.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2015/07/06/jon-lovitz-loves-stand-up-acting-and-singing-but-not-in-that-order}}</ref> In 2006, he became the spokesman in an advertising campaign for the [[Subway (restaurant)|Subway]] restaurant chain.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lovitz Makes His Subway Debut in MMB Effort |first=David |last=Gianatasio |url=http://www.tv.com/saturday-night-live/jon-lovitz-subway-spokesman/topic/455-233291/msgs.html |newspaper=[[Adweek]] |issn=0199-2864 |date=March 31, 2006 |access-date=February 12, 2011 |archive-date=June 28, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628221851/http://www.tv.com/saturday-night-live/jon-lovitz-subway-spokesman/topic/455-233291/msgs.html |url-status=live }}</ref>