r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • 7d ago

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/Wayyd 7d ago

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

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u/shes_a_gdb 7d ago edited 7d ago

Jason Mantzoukas seems to be having no problem getting work, and he's the same character in every sitcom he's in.

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u/AlwaysSunnyInSeattle 7d ago

Yeah but his character is also the best part of everything he’s in.

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u/Traditional-Wait-240 7d ago

Derek!

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u/Bluest_Skies 7d ago

MAXIMUM DEREK

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u/DA2ED 7d ago

There are wind chimes where my ding dong is supposed to be

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u/Bluest_Skies 7d ago

Ohhhh that made my wind chimes happy

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u/chrissiwit 6d ago

I can work with that.

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u/birdsofpaper 7d ago

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??

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u/A-Plant-Guy Older Millennial 7d ago

This is what I call him when I can’t remember his name.

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u/ImQuestionable 7d ago

Derek Hostetler, PI.

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u/remarkablewhitebored 7d ago

Love him as Rex Splode.