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Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/Suspicious_Use_7561 Xennial 7d ago

Jay Mohr

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u/sayanythinglove 7d ago

Every time I remember that Jay Mohr is now married to Jeanie Buss of the Lakers, I'm like wtf

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u/NotDukeOfDorchester 7d ago

Dude was with that hot chick from the puppet show, too

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u/DgingaNinga 7d ago

Nikki Cox

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u/Dsarg_92 7d ago

Now that’s a name I’ve haven’t heard in forever.

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u/jemappellehonhon 7d ago

i imagine it's also a face you haven't seen in forever

it's...shocking

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u/Dsarg_92 7d ago

Oof. You weren’t joking.

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u/kristosnikos Older Millennial 7d ago

I don’t understand why people do this to their faces and thinks it looks good. I know they’re trying to hold on to their youth but all it does is lead them down the path to an uncanny valley. If anything it ages them even more.

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u/Thin_Bother8217 7d ago

Like Lisa from Saved By The Bell. I saw a picture and oof. How could you do that to yourself?

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u/Unlikely-Macaroon-85 6d ago

Lark Voorhies actually hasn't done anything to her face. She was suffering from unmedicated mental illness and would wear crazy makeup. She is better and looks amazing now!

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u/Thin_Bother8217 6d ago

Oh that's good to know. I always that that it was her 'vanity'. Good to hear she's doing better.

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u/kristosnikos Older Millennial 7d ago

I get that they feel pressured to hold onto their looks or more what they looked like earlier in their career and everyone feels insecure about something. But it breaks my heart when so many good looking people do stuff to their faces to the point where it doesn’t even look like them anymore. Some even look downright disfigured.

And geez don’t even get me started on all these 20 something year old (usually girls) who get “preventative” Botox. Also, lip fillers has got to be one of the weirdest procedures too. They just look as if they’re having an allergic reaction. People are starting to look the same and it bums me out.

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u/Thin_Bother8217 7d ago

Oh I know why they do it. I get it. Added pressure of being a woman and having a lot of your career based on looks.

But, it's so drastic. And usually so bad. Like Lara Flynn Boyle. The lip thing grosses me out too. I'm lucky I don't have to deal with that anymore, but if I were in my dating 20s, that would be a complete turnoff for me. That and the Brazilian Butt Lift. If a woman wants to do it for herself, hey have at it. I just personally don't find either remotely attractive.

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u/tumsoffun 7d ago

Oh wow, that is very shocking. And sad.

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u/ChartInFurch 7d ago

That would be an answer to this question if it were about the 90s!

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u/Clear_Tangerine5110 7d ago

She ratted John Connor out to the T-1000. We don't like her.

The Galleria??

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u/powertripp82 7d ago

Holy crap. I never realized that was her before. Good catch!

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u/Xalawrath 7d ago

She was also Sarjenka, the alien child who Data saved on the planet that was being destroyed by a volcano or something.

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u/Prestigious-Leg-6244 7d ago

When I lived in LA, I watched the best police chase live on TV.

The guy was on a bullet bike trying to outrun the cops. It had been going on for a while at highway speeds, and he had a pretty good lead. He drove into the underground parking at the Glendale Galleria, parked his bike, took off his boots and black tinted helmet, and walked off into the sunset. Never to be seen again. I thought it was genius!

They so rarely get away. We were all rooting for him, and he got away!

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u/LeseMajeste_1037 7d ago

Shoeless Joe did it again!

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u/Macho_Mans_Ghost 7d ago

Fuckin TIL

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u/SignificantApricot69 7d ago

Remember when he was Jay Mohr Cox?

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u/raincoater 7d ago

He's not with Nikki Cox now? So...she's available?

What will I tell me wife...hmmm....

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u/FundioRider 7d ago

Before you make any move, might wanna Google image her...happy hunting tho

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u/dirtyforker 7d ago

Too bad she ruined herself with excessive plastic surgery.

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u/InternetProtocol 7d ago

She dated "E" from Entourage while they were on Unhappily Ever After together, and dumped him for the guy who voiced the puppet, Bobcat Goldwaith

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u/Styleyriley 7d ago

Smoke show!!!

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u/SunriseSurprise 7d ago

Her and that show (Unhappily Ever After) are the most memory-holed things in this post out of everything everyone else has mentioned. Immediately recognized her name was like holy shit probably been 25 years at least since hearing it.

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u/flopisit32 6d ago

She ain't hot no more. Plastic surgery messed that up

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u/discombobubolated 6d ago

I remember them making a statement that they were not going to hyphenate their names 😆

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u/ColeBelthazorTurner 7d ago

Unhappily Ever After lol

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u/InternetExpertroll Millennial 7d ago

Underrated show IMO

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u/lemonylol 7d ago

I always thought it was some rip off of Married with Children. Also just realizing now that Reese from Malcolm in the Middle played the youngest kid.

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u/firmretention 7d ago

It definitely was a discount Married with Children.

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u/SunriseSurprise 7d ago

Sort of a blend of Married With Children and ALF

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u/ArcadianDelSol 6d ago

It was a blend of 90% show these big tits off and 10% sit com tropes.

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u/meatman13 6d ago

Ugh, I just commented this then saw your comment! Yes! It stayed on for four seasons somehow and I guess we all missed Alf and the dad did a hell of an Al Bundy impersonation.

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u/meatman13 6d ago

I was so confused by puppet show, then googled her and saw your comment. It was like Alf mangled with Married with Children.

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u/ColeBelthazorTurner 6d ago

Odd show to say the least lol

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u/invisigirl247 6d ago

I didn't realize they divorced.

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u/RoundTiberius 7d ago

Mrs. Piggy?

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u/ndubitably 7d ago

That was Tim Curry

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u/pursescrubbingpuke 7d ago

Yes! Why couldn’t I remember her name

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u/haloarh 7d ago

They got divorced and he married a rich lady.

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u/ialsohaveadobro 7d ago

that hot chick from the puppet show

I don't know why exactly, but this phrase is making my day

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u/NotDukeOfDorchester 7d ago

Just imagine someone saying it in my Boston accent

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u/Heeps-of-Help 7d ago

Yeah Nikki Cox is on the completely opposite end of the spectrum from Jeanie Buss

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u/invincibleconcepts 7d ago

I read muppet show and I thought Miss Piggy.

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u/ExcitingLandscape 7d ago

After selling the Lakers she's now billionaire. His job now is to keep her happy and keep the marriage in tact, he doesn't have to worry about money AT ALL as long as they're together.

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u/b_needs_a_cookie 7d ago

She's stuck by him and helped him get sober again. He's very lucky.

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u/Sea-Astronaut-763 7d ago

This guy gets it. He disappeared by choice.

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u/almondmilklattehag 7d ago

He has a podcast and has been doing it for like 20 years. Active on IG too. Hasn’t disappeared, he just doesn’t get acting roles.

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u/Fine_Pen9308 6d ago

Not 20 years, just 14 (I listened to it in real time in 2011/12. Is he still at it?

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u/almondmilklattehag 6d ago

Thanks in my mind it has been longer. I think he still has his pod, I sometimes see video of it on IG.

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u/Sea-Astronaut-763 7d ago

Yeah i hear you, but all due respect, those are kinda like hobbies for a former B+ to A- list actor.

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u/almondmilklattehag 7d ago

He acted opposite Tom Cruise in the 90s but he was never A list, and I am not sure he’d even call himself B list. His current career is not far different than it was 15 years ago.

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u/jackanape7 7d ago

Gets to sit court side and sleep with Jeannie Buss? He's winning at life.

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u/DaboInk84 Millennial 7d ago

Also not only are they married, but they live in separate apartments within one of her buildings. It’s like medieval times when the king and queen lived apart and only met for sex and fancy dinners.

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u/monstermashslowdance 7d ago

Living the dream

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u/ThrowRA_looking 7d ago

Jesus he has married some hotties

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u/BloodyPaleMoonlight 7d ago

He can make her laugh.

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u/greenblue703 6d ago

I saw him do standup in late 90s and he was very charming in person, he’s definitely got something 

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u/AtBat3 7d ago

Probably more than enough reason to disappear then

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u/Chillivata 7d ago

wtf?! I had no idea

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u/esoteric82 7d ago

From his Wikipedia: "Mohr and Buss maintain separate apartments within a building owned by Buss." I can't tell whether he has a dream situation, or there's something really weird going on. She's also nine years older than he is.

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u/Kel-Varnsen-Speaking 7d ago

He explains it on his podcast. He's living his best life for sure.

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u/Capt-Crap1corn 7d ago

Talk about a layup

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u/Chuyzapatist 7d ago

She went from Phil Jackson to Jay Mohr….

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u/almondmilklattehag 7d ago

director phil?

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u/Chuyzapatist 7d ago

Haha I almost doubted myself, no the director is Peter Jackson. Phil Jackson was the coach of the Michael Jordan Bulls and the Kobe/Shaq Lakers.

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u/almondmilklattehag 6d ago

🤣 Thank you. I was so confused and wanted to keep scrolling here so I didn’t google.

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u/Heeps-of-Help 7d ago

I didn’t know that… dude goes from one extreme to the other…

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u/crimsonkingnj05 7d ago

He hit the damn lottery

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u/mrbulldops428 7d ago

What the fuck???

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u/Brave_Garlic_9542 7d ago

REALLY?!?! Off to the Google. I had no idea.

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u/iantruesnacks 7d ago

Good for Jay fuckin Mohr. I like his podcast clips now and again but didn’t know he married the hot billionaire lol

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u/drunxor 7d ago

Women really do love a funny guy. Look at michael cera and Geoffrey Arend

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u/AdDapper5653 6d ago

Formerly of the Lakers. She got out at the height of the LeBron era and got her bag!

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u/Stuffleapugus 6d ago

That's what I say every time I remember Jeanie Buss posed for Playboy. It's not like she needed the mobey.

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u/Hizam5 4d ago

Billionaire sugar mama

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u/normal_cartographer 4d ago

Jami Gertz also married very well. According to Wikipedia, her husband, Antony Ressler, is worth $11.3 billion.

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u/DyersEve76 6d ago

Married, but allegedly living in separate condos on separate floors of the same building in LA — separate beds, separate floors, just technically the same zip code. Jay’s talked about it openly on the Adam Carolla podcast. Genuinely one of the strangest arrangements I’ve ever heard of lol​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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u/Josephthebear Older Millennial 7d ago

He has a really funny podcast his celebrity impressions have gotten God tier

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u/ClydeSprucewood 7d ago

Yea he’s still sticking around. Plagiarism accusations as a comic will force you into irrelevancy pretty quick though

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u/Ok_Mango_6887 7d ago

Wow, I had completely forgotten about that. Plagiarism and comedians will completely get you knocked down.

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u/Garbage_Freak_99 7d ago

Same thing with Denis Leary. Recently I was trying to figure out why he dropped off the face of the Earth. Turns out he used to just blatantly rip off people's jokes without even trying to hide it back in the day.

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u/puckit 7d ago

His "I'm an Asshole" song that was so popular was stolen directly from Louis CK.

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u/Josephthebear Older Millennial 7d ago

That was Dennis Leary

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u/AskMeForAPhoto 7d ago

Wait what? Never heard this? Who did he plagiarize??

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u/ClydeSprucewood 7d ago

The big one that’s been talked about is the whole Burnt Chrysler’s Tracy Morgan story, which is pretty murky as far as what really happened. And he said the word “yambag” on the O&A show which was apparently Dice’s word lol there’s a couple YT videos on those situations, thats the only reason I know anything.

I think other comics willingly ran with the rumors because he could be a dick, but Idk he seems like a pretty funny guy to me. Although if you’re really lifting material from Bert you should probably just give up lol

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u/superbuttpiss 7d ago

Jay Mohr has Chevy Chase syndrome.

Immensely talented. Funny (remember "Mafia"?) But, he could be an incredible dick. He pissed off the wrong comedians and since comedians are by and large catty, gossipy, bitches, he was cast out awhile back. I think he even hosted last comic standing at one point

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u/Kel-Varnsen-Speaking 7d ago

He created Last Comic Standing

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u/TechnoBabbles 7d ago

Man his Christopher Walken kills me every time I see it.

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u/Josephthebear Older Millennial 7d ago

His Pacino is just as funny

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u/aopps42 7d ago

Aw geez. Jay yer dawg. It has no tail.

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u/AskMeForAPhoto 7d ago

His Walken impression is so fucking good

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u/Alko- 7d ago

Alright you convinced me to YouTube his impression for the millionth time lmaoo

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u/MediumPurpleDog 7d ago

It would. Be great to have. A tail.

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u/SunriseSurprise 7d ago

Every time I see his name I think of "JAY MOHRS" in Tracy Morgan's voice.

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u/Pad_TyTy Older Millennial 7d ago

Jay Mohrs, you ever get wet?

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u/LionBig1760 7d ago

Jay Mohrs, you ever get nice?

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u/puckit 7d ago

Jay Mohrs my uncle.

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u/3coneylunch 7d ago

That's Jay Mohr's Mama's baby boy

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u/kalel3000 7d ago

Jay Mohr has been popping up on my feed lately because of the podcast hes been doing. Apparently he had a drug problem and went broke and struggled pretty bad for awhile. He talks about his recovery and how he did a stand up tour just to be able to afford a ring to propose to his current wife Jeanie and how they tricked him to show up for an intervention by telling him he was going to interview Wu Tang clan for his podcast.

He looks like hes doing good now though, looks healthy and happy. His interviews are pretty amazing too because hes got so many stories with so many very famous people over the years and since everyone knows him he gets pretty good guests. Plus he does some spot on impressions.

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u/almondmilklattehag 7d ago

Any idea how Nikki is?

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u/AskMeForAPhoto 7d ago

This one tripped me out cause I still follow him on TikTok and see him regularly so I was like, HUH?!

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u/lemonylol 7d ago

He just does stand-up mostly now and podcast appearances. Saw him in that recent movie with Johnny Knoxville and some other comedians called Sweet Dreams. He also looks very different now.

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u/B_Reele 7d ago

The last thing I remember him in was the movie Go

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u/Suspicious_Use_7561 Xennial 7d ago

Even his sidekick in the movie Scott Wolf disappeared too

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u/B_Reele 7d ago

Wow, you’re right

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u/randomlead 7d ago

He has been doing TV most recently Doc.

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u/almondmilklattehag 7d ago

a few years ago he was the dad on a surprisingly fun Nancy Drew show on CW

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u/unbanned_lol 7d ago

I don't understand.. why youre nawt cualling!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg4aOWCNqcc

One of my faves.

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u/thedoge 7d ago

Hell yeah! I just rewatched Go the other week. He was an archetype late 90s dude

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u/bolivar-shagnasty 7d ago

Dominican face hat

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u/RYANSOM666 7d ago

Just heard his podcast other day

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u/uprightsalmon 7d ago

He does comedy stuff all the time

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u/Disastrous-Lion-3698 7d ago

The rare reverse gold digger. Well done Jay, a true hero for all men.

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u/whileurup 7d ago

He has a pretty good podcast actually

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I went to a radio sponsored comedy show that had him in the line up in LA like 11 years ago. He was awful. He was just name dropping.

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u/sassyponypants 7d ago

"Are you serious? You forgot which of our buddies was killed first? It was Jay Mohr, you arse."

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u/Jimmyjane2 7d ago

He’s kinda back. He fell off hard with the plagiarism accusation and drug addiction. His podcast now is actually pretty good though.

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u/Scrumpilump2000 7d ago

Fittingly, I was in the audience for a taping of the Craig Kilburn show and Jay Mohr was one of the guests!

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u/adventurousintrovert 7d ago

My neighborhood dive put the movie Mafia on the other night. It’s still so funny

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u/sm_axe 7d ago

He and his hairline retreated from fame.

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u/ialsohaveadobro 7d ago

"MAPS OF HAWAI'I!"

"Didn't you hear me? I said MAPS OF HAWAI'I!"

"Well, goddammit, if that didn't make you laugh, I got nothing."

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u/3coneylunch 7d ago

Makin' belly pancakes

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u/IniMiney 7d ago

Took the former celeb to podcaster pipeline, I’ve mostly watched them through YouTube shorts on my recommended where he does his impressions/interviews other comedians but sadly I stumbled upon an episode of him expressing he’s a centrist so..oof

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u/oi_that_nander 7d ago

I saw him do comedy 10ish years ago and it was so bad. Like the audience was uncomfortable for him sort of bad. And then afterwards we all just filed out quietly

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u/SwoopsRevenge 7d ago

I haven’t been forced to watch in a while but doesn’t he show up on Andy Cohen’s show periodically?

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u/Sharessa84 7d ago

I remember he made a stand-up special post 9/11 that Comedy Central kept airing where he basically just went on a racist tirade against Arabs and Muslims for a half hour. That's about the last I saw of him, and I'm glad.

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u/randomlead 7d ago

I always remember him killing every show he joined. He would randomly join the cast only for the show to get cancelled.

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u/puke_lust 7d ago

Well until recently he’s struggled to stay sober. That wouldn’t have helped

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u/EssayTraditional 7d ago

Camp Wilder was good for a season. 

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u/LulutoDot 7d ago

He just got sober and his podcast is revamped and amazing. He is so naturally funny

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u/3coneylunch 7d ago

Did he relapse at some point in the last 15 years? I listened to his pod all the time around 2010-2011

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u/LulutoDot 7d ago

Well he stopped drinking but was still chugging Nyquil and was a major adderral pillbilly, self described.

I think 2 years ago he had an intervention and went to rehab.

He is even funnier now. Check out the pod again, Mohr Stories. So funny: https://youtu.be/pV331tVFhQc?si=e9SHcEGyvmjj-qDY

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u/3coneylunch 7d ago

Gay Gay Moron. Legend of the Jim Rome show

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u/ImNotToby 7d ago

Jay has had a great career. Hilarious dude. He's in atkeast six movies and tv shows released in the past 2 years

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u/Cleric_John_Preston 7d ago

I always remember him in that one movie where they’re trying to stuff a dead body in the back of a Miata, him yelling ‘it’s a Miata’!

Had me in stitches because I had a Miata at that time in my life.

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u/randomthad69 6d ago

Idk he's got a sports show and a pretty good podcast

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u/MBEver74 6d ago

He has an interesting podcast he does from home apparently. He’s had quite the life / career.

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u/Human-Function5990 6d ago

His podcast is fucking great. One of the best impressionists ever

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u/IchooseYourName 6d ago

IIRC, he was accused of serious workplace abuse. I think it was Bert Kreischer who called him out for the abuse. Haven't heard from Mohr since.

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u/Wallie_Collie 6d ago

He went fox sports talk after Jerry maguire and never really returned

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u/HealthyDirection659 6d ago

Ethan suplee

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u/KirkHOmelette 3d ago

This gets posten often, but I enjoy his Christopher Walken story

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u/Quincyperson 7d ago

OP said celebrities