SNL & Simpsons Star Phil Hartman Killed by His Wife… Was Jealousy the Driving Reason?

True Crime with Kendall Rae

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🗓️ 4 July 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Phil Hartman was a successful comedian making his way up in his career when he met his wife Brynn. Over time, it started to seem that she was very jealous of his success, and wanted that fame for herself. Some believe it was this which led her to killing her husband. Others think it was her medication and issues with addiction that brought her to doing what she did.

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0:00.0	I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it
0:04.5	had to move to make it happen and for me the Met presented endless opportunities.
0:08.9	From joining as a PC at age 23 I went into a variety of roles from emergency
0:14.6	response to public order policing. As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch my dream job
0:19.9	became reality. Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where
0:24.3	my career takes me next. Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police
0:28.4	careers.
0:36.8	Hello everyone and welcome back. I'm so happy to have you here with me today to
0:40.7	discuss yet another case and if you're new then welcome. So today we are going to
0:46.8	be talking about the life and the murder of Phil Hartman. Now Phil Hartman was a
0:55.2	comedian who was famous through the 70s 80s 90s. He was an SNL star. I know a
1:01.6	lot of my audience is on the younger side and I myself did not know who Phil
1:06.8	Hartman was until I started researching this case and became familiar with his
1:11.1	career and everything he did. And he seemed like a real light in the industry
1:16.5	who had a very successful career still ahead of him. And what happened to him
1:20.9	is extremely tragic. We are going to talk about how his life came to an end.
1:25.6	However, I wanted to really start this out and for the majority of it talk
1:30.3	about his life and what led up to that day. So Phil Hartman's career is really
1:36.6	one that so many comedians and actors look to for inspiration in the industry.
1:42.6	He was someone who figured out what his dream was and then stopped at
1:47.2	nothing to make it come true. Even though his career peaked before I was old
1:51.3	enough to even know who he was and he passed when I was about five, his work is
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