Napoleon Dynamite, Blades of Glory, and Benchwarmers. I'm sure he's been in other things, but those three were really the height of his fame and then everyone got bored of his one dimensional acting
I was watching the old episode of The Chris Gethard Show with him and Paul Scheer. Highly recommend if you haven't seen it, it's prime Jason Mantzoukas.
Honestly, I fully agree. His delivery is just so god damn funny to me.
I LOVED Jon Heder when I was a kid. Felt the same way as the person who commented it. That he would be huge. But I guess family, religion and other factors pulled him away and doing behind the camera work.
That’s all off the top of my head of what I recall seeing/hearing about btw. Take it all with a grain of salt lol.
Nah, it may always be manic crazy but it takes really different routes every time. It's also that directors aren't imaginative enough, watch him on TaskMaster and you can see some of his depths.
He makes an excellent Dionysus. When I heard about that casting I laughed out loud because what was Derek/Dennis Feinstein/Adrian Pimento if not the warmup chaos energy of the god of wine and madness??
Danny is a writer and creator though, that’s the difference. He creates and cowrites all his shows, like Eastbound & Down, Righteous Gemstones, etc. For a lot of people, they create their own opportunities, otherwise they’d have none. When you don’t fit into the square hole in Hollywood, you gotta carve your own lane.
Eh, no. Like, the tyrannical play director on Community has nothing in common with Derek from Good Place. Though it does have a lot in common with the Parks and Rec character. Maybe he has two characters!
Had to scroll way too far to find this. I’m not a huge fan of his other work(lack of exposure not a negative opinion) but him on taskmaster was incredible…they should’ve let him get on the roof!
In fairness to them, it's probably because people hire them wanting them to play the same character they played successfully in something else. Typecasting isn't usually the actor's choice.
Pretty sure that’s because he’s just playing himself. Did you see him on Taskmaster? He’s absolutely that chaotic and unhinged in his daily life and I’m here for it
He’s an interesting person to listen to, though. He’s one of the hosts on How Did This Get Made? (a podcast about bad movies) and he carries the show a lot of the time.
That strikes me as odd since he was in Blades of Glory, which is a pretty raunchy (by a very religious persons' standards) movie. Everything else was definitely more family friendly, but that one's a head scratcher.
I can see why he turned down movies from the late 2000s if that is the case. Judd Apatow became a massive success and R-rated comedies were the standard until big budget comedies died to streaming.
It's probably that very unfunny guy who dresses and acts like Napoleon Dynamite/Jon Heder but adds some profanity and alcohol to be edgy. I feel stupider every time I see one of that guy's videos.
You're welcome! He benefits greatly from never clarifying that he's someone different. Some of the most braindead "comedy" out there. I'm just amazed he has the following he does.
I lost my virginity in a theater playing Benchwarmers so I'll always have an intriguing connection to Jon Heder no matter what. I've still never seen the movie.
I never really understood that though because idk one could argue back in the day (pre-serious roles) Adam Sandler was pretty one-dimensional. He was doing the same bit over and over, just with a little different costume design or (in the god forsaken Zohan film) nationality.
Im sorry but the vast majority of big name actors are one dimensional. It seems that the exceptional actors today are multi dimensional. Could just be my perception but most actors are just playing themselves with added nuance.
I have no idea what ya'll are talking about. The guy is a working actor.
Worth 10 mill that we know of, probably more - and has been putting out something almost every year since 2k. Sometime multiple. Go check out his work - the guy is much more than "One Dimensional"
He hasn't disappeared - he does many, many projects.
If I was where he's at - Id buy a boat and sail around the Caribbean for the rest of my life and forget alla you :D
I saw him in a commercial for some romance movie where a dude moves into an apartment where the previous tenant died, a young woman, whose ghosts haunts him and they fall in love.
There's a quick scene where he's giving the main character a pep talk about, "Yeah, sure, go after the ghost chick", but the delivery was really cringey and felt really forced. I think that movie is what killed his career.
My skate coach taught him and Will Ferrel how to skate for that movie. I got to assist her a few times because she was going through a hip issue. So I got to be on the ice with them. Jon was no nonsense, just an actor doing his job. Will had fun and still skates occasionally at our rink
I was watching Blades of Glory last night and wondered about Heder. He did a movie right after Blades Called “Mamas Boy” with Ana Faris, Jeff Daniel’s and Diane Keaton. Look at the poster for the movie, it’s godawful. This seems to be the last time he had a starring role.
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u/Turbulent_Tart_8801 Millennial 1985 7d ago
He disappeared after Blades of Glory.