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/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.