Jay Mohr (born August 23, 1970) is an American actor and stand-up comedian.
He was born in Verona, New Jersey, USA. He has two sisters, Julia and Virginia. He has one son, Jackson, from his six-year marriage to former model Nicole Chamberlain.
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Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 Television and film
- 1.2 Recurring characters on SNL
- 1.3 Celebrity impersonations on SNL
- 2 Controversy
- 3 Currently
- 4 Filmography
- 5 External links
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Career
Television and film
Jay Mohr in
Seeing Other People
Mohr appeared as a featured player during the 1993-94 and 1994-95 seasons of Saturday Night Live. His 2004 autobiography, Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live (ISBN 1-4013-0006-5), details this tumultuous period of his life, including his battle with chronic panic attacks. Though his potential was appreciated by SNL creator/producer Lorne Michaels, Mohr was impatient with his progression to full cast member, and left the show on bad terms. He has since reconciled with Michaels.
Mohr had a recurring role in the first season of The Jeff Foxworthy Show as Jeff Foxworthy's brother, Wayne. Mohr's first high-impact role on the big screen was in 1996 when he played Bob Sugar (rival agent to Tom Cruise's character) in Jerry Maguire. Then in 1999, starred in the television series, Action, in which he played a sleazy film producer, Peter Dragon. His intimidating boss is memorably characterized as a thinly-veiled Barry Diller. Mohr later hosted a short-lived 2001 talk show on ESPN entitled Mohr Sports. He was also the voice-over artist for Beyond the Glory, Fox Sports Net's critically-acclaimed contemporary documentary series, looks at athletes' lives beyond the playing arena.
In 2003 and 2004, he was the host, creator, and executive producer of NBC's Last Comic Standing reality television program, one of his most visible television roles. The show aired for three seasons, but was cancelled near the end of the third season due to poor ratings. Mohr was very vocal toward NBC concerning its cancellation [1], and did not return for the show's fourth season in 2006. Mohr was replaced with new host Anthony Clark, but he is credited as a consultant. On the season finale of Last Comic Standing 4, Jay performed as a guest comedian to a great ovation.
He now has a guest role in the T.V.-series "Ghost Whisperer".
Listed as #86 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of all-time, Mohr has also appeared in movies such as Jerry Maguire, Small Soldiers, Go, and Pay it Forward.
Recurring characters on SNL
- James Barone from "Good Morning Brooklyn"
Celebrity impersonations on SNL
- Andrew McCarthy
- Anthony Kiedis
- Billy Idol
- Christopher Walken, an impersonation he also does outside of SNL (particularly on The Simpsons episode, Insane Clown Poppy in the scene where Walken reads to children)
- Dick Vitale
- Don Rickles
- Joe Perry
- Kenny G.
- Mickey Rourke
- Ricki Lake
- Sean Penn
- Tony Bennett
Controversy
Mohr has been accused of stealing material. His Comedy Central special is often cited, where he used a massage bit adapted from Robert Kelly, who also frequently appears on Opie and Anthony. An SNL sketch about an Irish bartender written by and starring Mohr was taken from the act of comedian Rick Shapiro, a fact Mohr confirmed in his book.
In 2004, Mohr, who was a frequent guest host on The Jim Rome Radio Show, was virtually banned from future guest-hosting gigs following controversial and vulgar references to the recently-deceased Ronald Reagan and toward Muhammad Ali's battle with Parkinson's disease. Listeners and affiliates alike called Premiere Radio Networks to complain about Mohr's comments, and in turn, he was asked to refrain from accepting the offer to guest host the show in the future. "The Slam Man" has not guest hosted since.
Currently
He currently writes an article for the Sports Illustrated website SI.com entitled Mohr Sports.
He married actress Nikki Cox on December 29, 2006.[2]
Mohr was featured in two Super Bowl XL commercials for Diet Pepsi, where Mohr plays the agent for Diet Pepsi (the can), making deals with Diddy and Jackie Chan.
Mohr can be heard as a semi-regular call-in guest on the Ron and Fez Show.
Filmography
- Christmas Do-Over (2006)
- Lonely Street (2006)
- Community Service (2006)
- Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006)
- The Groomsmen (2006)
- Are We There Yet? (2004)
- Seeing Other People (2004)
- Fastlane (2002) (TV series)
- S1m0ne (2002)
- Pay It Forward (2000)
- 200 Cigarettes (1999)
- Go (1999)
- Small Soldiers (1998)
- Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
- Suicide Kings (1997)
- Picture Perfect (1997)
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
