Pauly Shore

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Pauly Shore

Pauly Montgomery Shore (born February 1, 1968) is a Jewish American comedian. He and his brother, Peter, are the sons of Sam and Mitzi Shore, who founded the Los Angeles comedy club The Comedy Store.

Shore started with stand-up and had unmemorable bit parts in several late-1980s movies. His big break came as an MTV host, from 1989-1994. He had his own show, Totally Pauly, and served as a traveling ambassador, most memorably on MTV's annual Spring Break parties. At his first Spring Break gig, he unleashed his catchphrase, "weasel," on the world.

Shore's first comedy album, 1991's The Future of America, was named Best Comedy Album by the College Music Journalists. The album paved the way for Shore's subsequent releases Scraps from the Future, and Pink Diggly Diggly.

Shore's first film, the critically panned Encino Man in 1992, garnered him a Golden Raspberry Award for his performance, largely because Shore was unabashedly not acting -- his character uncannily resembled his MTV persona. Yet the movie was remarkably popular, and Shore parlayed it into several other films: Son In Law (nominated for an MTV Movie Award), In The Army Now, 1995 Razzie winner Jury Duty, and 1996 Razzie winner Bio-Dome. Pauly's wave of fame crashed when he tried to turn back to TV in 1997, with the series Pauly on the Fox Network.

In 2000 he won the Razzie award for "Worst New Star of the Decade," but lost "Worst Actor of the Century" to Sylvester Stallone.

By that time, though, Shore had fully retreated to smaller movie roles, and a "weasel"-free stand-up routine. He attempted a surprisingly successful comeback with the star-studded, autobiographical independent film Pauly Shore Is Dead: You'll Never Wiez In This Town Again, which went to video on January 25, 2005, after a small theater release. The film garnered critical praise and was positively received by fans, and began to quickly develop a cult following.

Currently, Shore has a reality show on TBS, titled Minding the Store. The series follows Shore as he takes control of the Comedy Store and attempts to revitalize it. In a CNN article to promote the show in 2005, Shore admitted that he is a recovering sex addict and currently seeing a therapist, and that he allowed some of his therapy sessions to be taped for the show. Shore also said that if anyone did not laugh while viewing the show that they would receive a dollar. The individual simply had to mail a self addressed stamped envelope to Shore care of TBS and would in turn receive a dollar bill back to the first 250,000 people. It is unknown if anyone did receive a dollar.

Trivia

Shore made an appearance in the animated series Futurama in the second season episode "The Cryonic Woman". In it, Shore is awoken from cryogenic sleep in the year 3000 by Fry, who proceeds to torture him with a probulator.

External links

• Pauly Shore at IMDb
• The Day I Met Pauly Shore
• Interview: Pauly Shore (Badmouth.net)