Remembering Troy McClure
The great “Simpsons” character Troy McClure was discontinued after Phil Hartman, the actor who voiced him, was tragically murdered in 1998.
Troy, a washed-up actor, would frequently appear as the host of an informerical or an educational or corporate PR film. He always began his spiel: “Hi, I’m Troy McClure. You might remember me from…”
Here’s a compendium of some of the unforgettable films and TV shows we might remember him from.
Comments
| 2 July, 2010, 10:59 am |
I watch the Simpsons pretty often and I didn’t realise. Channel 4 shows them here in random order afaict.
The episode where Troy enters a sham marriage with patty (or selma) in an attempt to revive his flagging career is one of my favourites.
| 2 July, 2010, 9:59 pm |
He will be missed, his character was hilarious. I really love when he appears in school films like when he was on the film about bovine university. I also had not noticed that he is the same guy from News Radio.
| 3 July, 2010, 5:25 pm |
Phil Hartman’s nickname at Saturday Night Live was “The Base.” They could always count on him to bring in character so well and so strongly that they could build sketches around him. Those were the best years on SNL, imho.
| 5 July, 2010, 8:52 pm |
Troy McClure sleeps with the fishes.
| 6 July, 2010, 2:24 am |
Based on the awesome Doug McClure:
| 10 July, 2010, 1:44 pm |
Former NBC West Coast President Don Ohlmeyer said about Hartman after his murder that he “was blessed with a tremendous gift for creating characters that made people laugh. But more importantly, everyone who had the pleasure of working with Phil knows that he was a man of tremendous warmth, a true professional and a loyal friend.”
| 3 November, 2010, 10:55 pm |
Wow, I had noticed Troy wasn’t any more on The Simpsons, but I wasn’t aware it had been so long (12 years 
). I didn’t knew the causes either….good to know.
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