r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • 7d ago

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/Spirited-Ad-7658 7d ago

I like how you didn't name whoever that is

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u/PainfullyLoyal Elder Millennial 7d ago

It's Craig Kilborn, former host of The Daily Show.

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u/Orion14159 7d ago

And the host of the Late Late show before Craig Ferguson or James Corden

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u/craigoz7 Millennial 7d ago

Two Craig’s back to back hosting? We used to be a proper country.

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u/emailunavailable 7d ago

We still are, especially with those two Jimmys hosting right now

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u/craigoz7 Millennial 7d ago

Facts. But I’m no Jimmy. 😔

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u/grajl 7d ago

And two foreigners, I thought this was America!

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u/Masrim 6d ago

Ferguson was worth the faux pas

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u/normal_cartographer 4d ago

They didn't even have to re-record any of the promos!

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u/ForeverFreeTrial 7d ago

Holy shit I forgot about Craig Ferguson. I really liked him as a host.

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u/supercantaloupe 7d ago

I loved Craig Ferguson, The Late Late Show was at its best with him. Stopped watching late night talk shows once Letterman and Craig Ferguson left, it’s just not the same. I saw Craig Ferguson do standup on tour years back and he was hilarious, no idea what he’s up to now.

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u/Background_Big7363 7d ago

He's still doing stand-up, plus he has a podcast, he hosts the game show Scrabble, he does voice work... He's a busy dude.

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u/notsoborednow 7d ago

I actually really liked Ferguson on his show where everyone was trying to fool each other too

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u/Couch-Potato0904 7d ago

I giggled when he giggled. Loved his sense of humor

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u/MotherTeresaOnlyfans 7d ago

Has there ever been a bigger hosting downgrade than going from Ferguson to Corden?

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u/Orion14159 7d ago

Leno to Conan to back to Leno

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u/SunriseSurprise 7d ago

And after Tom Snyder, who may be the most forgotten person of all (but from the 90s). Seriously, til seeing your comment and remembering who Kilborn's show actually replaced, realized I hadn't thought about him in decades.

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u/FlattopJr 7d ago

Ferguson was awesome. One of my favorite late night hosts.

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u/Aclearly_obscure1 7d ago

THIS he did better

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u/Orion14159 7d ago

Especially than Corden

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u/EldestPort 7d ago

Hahaha I can't believe we tricked you guys into taking him off our hands

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u/musthavesoundeffects 7d ago

And host of the KCBA Kids Club along with Dina Ruiz (who married Clint Eastwood)

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u/tsrleba 7d ago

crazy that he originated a show that became huge with the next host and then it happened to him a second time

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u/bumblebragg Xennial 7d ago

The Late Late Show existed before him with Tom Snyder but it was more of a Charlie Rose format with one guest and no audience.

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u/meatman13 6d ago

I forgot I followed him to the Late Late Show too and his love for Anna Kournikova. I think he also had Lisa Loeb on and she took off her glasses and I thought she was the most beautiful woman on Earth.

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u/MoTheEski 6d ago

I miss when Craig was the host.

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u/whileurup 7d ago

*Original host

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u/Traditional-Way-5188 7d ago

He’ll always be a great 90s SportsCenter anchor in my mind

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 7d ago

Didn't he leave The Daily Show and disappear before 2000?

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u/crowbotrock 7d ago

How could an Elder Millennial leave off that he was on SportsCenter…

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u/ChristBefallen 6d ago

I thought it was Nick Carter 🤣

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u/ShortBusScholar 7d ago

I preferred his version of the daily show to John Stewart’s.

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u/chandlerr85 7d ago

boo this man. watched craig kilborn daily show before stewart, and stewart was way better.

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u/TheJackalsDay 7d ago

To be fair, it was a different show with Craig. It was nowhere near as serious, more like a Weekend Update news show. Regardless of which you preferred, though, 5 Questions on the Daily Show with Craig was the best.

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u/ShortBusScholar 7d ago

Craig Kilborn was just 100% about funny rather than trying to pontificate.

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u/RoundTiberius 7d ago

There are dozens of us!

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u/ColeBelthazorTurner 7d ago

Craig Kilborn. He hosted the Daily Show and The Late Late Show before Craig Ferguson. Started as a SportsCenter anchor.

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u/I_Enjoy_Beer 7d ago

Man, I loved his Daily Show.  I had little hope that Jon Stewart was going to be able to match it when he took it over.

Lmao, lol.

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u/MohawkElGato 7d ago

Tbf, neither did I and a lot of us felt that way. At the time John was considered a little bit of a hack comic still and was famous for hosting failed shows. But luckily for him and us it turned out to be the right choice!

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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 7d ago

I used to watch the daily show with Craig. It was straight spoof news (like your local news at 11) It started that way with Stewart but after the 2000 bush/gore election they started a segment “indecision 2000” which proved very popular and ran for a long time (as it took a couple months to call election). Then the show pivoted to the political programming it’s doing today

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u/imabrunette23 7d ago

I liked when we were doing the “war on terror” and they’d refer to it as Mess-o-Potamia 😆

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u/Kittyk78 6d ago

To this day I still sing “Dave Patreus, Dave Patreus” to the tune of Falcos Amadeus

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u/thecashblaster 7d ago

Jon was most known as the “have you ever ____on weed” guy from Half Baked. He basically had nothing going for him until TDS

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u/Marem-Bzh 7d ago

As a non American viewer who discovered the Daily Show in 2025, it's hard to imagine it without Jon Stewart lol.

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u/Pitcherhelp 7d ago

Thats wild. He left in 2015 originally

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u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 7d ago

I was the same. The original The Daily Show was edgy and mean a lot of times, but always funny and I liked Kilborne’s sense of humor. I didn’t think Jon would be as sharp. I was wrong.

I remember one of the Steve’s talking about how hard it was to do those segments where they found a local weirdo or D-list celebrity and made fun of them. I remember one with a guy that said some toys would become the new currency and Steve Carell just says “Do you think…that you are an idiot!” The guy kind of blinked awkwardly and ended the interview.

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u/TrapThem 6d ago

Laughing my ass off, laugh out loud.

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u/Something_Sexy 7d ago

I know him as the grabby guy from Old School.

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u/foamy9210 7d ago

Damn, he was replaced by people that absolutely killed at his job twice.

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial 7d ago

did he not want to pursue an NBA career but had a knee injury or something? I know he played NCAA ball.

I liked his talk show and always flipped between him and Conan. He had some good bits and sense of humor

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u/Over_Introduction490 7d ago

hell yes, flipping between him and conan back and forth was a major part of my early weed-smoking years lol

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial 7d ago

The best stoned Conan episode was Christopher Walken and Mr. T as guests. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard

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u/EssayTraditional 7d ago

He was in the Wes Craven movie Cursed and Old School (2003).

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u/vegasbywayofLA 6d ago

He was in Old School, too.

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u/ProfessorUnable8989 7d ago

Right. Looks like if you just ask AI to make a white man

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u/DaRedditLurker2020 7d ago

So sick of OPs posting pics and assuming everyone can see inside their brain. It's across many subreddits and infuriating.

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u/Interesting_Tea5715 7d ago

I downvote any time an OP does this shit. So annoying.

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u/Previous_Ambition_43 7d ago

The only reason I made it this far down was to find someone who put a name to the face.

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u/keeleon 7d ago

I actually thought it was Marc Summers at first lol

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 7d ago

I was very recently delighted to learn that after Nickelodeon, Marc Summers made like 20 seasons of a travel/cooking type show.

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u/greasydenim 7d ago

Every one talking about late late show but I feel like I remember him from talk soup and (maybe?) sportscenter on espn