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Jon Lovitz managed to pull even more material out of disgraced congressman George Santos just days after portraying the politician in a brutal satire on The Tonight Show. Lovitz, who donned thick black glasses and a blazer to play Santos on Jimmy Fallon‘s late night show, hit back at the New York republican when Santos criticized his impersonation on Twitter.
“Thanks the review and advice! You’re right! I do need to step my game up!” Lovitz sarcastically replied to Santos yesterday (Jan. 23). “My pathological liar character can’t hold a candle to you! Loved your ‘Jew-ish’ joke. One of my favorites I do all the time!”
He was replying to Santos’ tweet from earlier in the day, when he came after Lovitz for his “embarrassing” Tonight Show appearance. Santos wrote, “I have now been enshrined in late night TV history with all these impersonations, but they are all TERRIBLE so far. Jon Lovitz is supposed to be one of the greatest comedians of all time and that was embarrassing— for him not me! These comedians need to step their game up.”
Lovitz appeared on The Tonight Show Jan. 20, where he joked about receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, playing at Madison Square Garden and being the great-grandson of Winston Churchill, poking fun at Santos’ many lies. But he wasn’t the only comedian who gave their best Santos. Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live‘s Bowen Yang also played the congressman, and Harvey Guillen shared his own Santos interpretation on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Santos has come under fire in the past month for an ever-growing list of fabrications about his past, including claims his mother died on 9/11, that his grandparents survived the Holocaust, that he appeared on Hannah Montana and that he worked on Wall Street, to name just a few. Despite his sketchy past, Santos was still sworn into Congress earlier this month.
The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon airs weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on NBC. Watch Lovitz’s Santos impersonation in the video above.
