Jay Mohr
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 .
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Career
Television and film
Mohr appeared as a featured player for 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 (), 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 major film role was in 1996 when he played Bob Sugar in Jerry Maguire, followed in 1997 by a starring role in Picture Perfect. In 1999, Mohr starred in the television series Action, in which he played sleazy film producer Peter Dragon. Mohr later hosted a talk show on ESPN entitled which ran briefly in 2001 before being cancelled. He was also the voice-over artist for Fox Sports Net's Beyond the Glory. Mohr has also appeared in movies such as Are We There Yet?, Small Soldiers, Go, and Pay It Forward.
In 2003 and 2004, Mohr created, hosted, and was executive producer of NBC's Last Comic Standing reality television program. The show aired for three seasons, but was cancelled near the end of the third season due to poor ratings, only to be renewed later. Mohr was very vocal toward NBC concerning its cancellation, 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. He now has a recurring role on the TV series Ghost Whisperer.
Author
Mohr authored the best selling book Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches at Saturday Night Live concerning his time as an actor on Saturday Night Live.
He also penned a column for cnnsi.com and Sports Illustrated, but this has since been removed. He now writes for the Fox Sports website.
Radio
Mohr has contributed frequently to The Jim Rome Show as a caller and has guest hosted for Rome when he is on vacation. Mohr's sardonic wit and knowledge of clone slang has endeared him to the Jungle audience. His nickname on the show is “Slam Man” and Rome often lets him promote his upcoming comedy club appearances. Mohr got 7th place in the 2007 SmackOff.
He used to appear frequently on the Opie and Anthony radio program, but since they're on so early and he lives in California, he's been appearing frequently on the Ron and Fez Show as a caller.
Gaming
Mohr was the Master of Ceremonies at Blizzcon 2007.
Recurring characters on SNL
- James Barone from “Good Morning Brooklyn”
Celebrity impersonations on SNL
- Andrew McCarthy
- Anthony Kiedis from The Red Hot Chili Peppers
- 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 “Goodnight, Moon” to a group of frightened children). Walken himself has even said that Mohr's impression of him is his favorite.
- Dick Vitale
- Don Rickles
- Joe Perry
- Kenny G.
- Mickey Rourke
- Ricki Lake
- Sean Penn
- Tony Bennett
- Crispin Glover
Currently
He married actress Nikki Cox on December 29, 2006.
Mohr was featured in three commercials for Diet Pepsi, where Mohr plays the agent for Diet Pepsi (the can), making deals with Diddy, Jackie Chan and a celebrity poker appearance.
Mohr can be heard as a semi-regular guest on the Ron and Fez and Opie and Anthony shows on XM Satellite Radio. Mohr considers Fez Whatley of Ron and Fez one his closest friends.
Mohr is often a celebrity caller to The Jim Rome Show, where he talks about sports and rips on the “clones.” Rome's nickname for him is the Slam Man. Jay guest hosted the The Jim Rome Show on August 13, 2007 while the original pimp in the box was on vacation. It was on this show that Jay Mohr showed his distaste for Asians when he implied there was a problem with the city of Vancouver because it looks “so much like Hong Kong”, referring to Vancouver's large Asian population.
He is filming the pilot for a new show by the writers of Will & Grace about a Gay/Straight writing team.
Blizzard Entertainment has arranged for him to host and perform during the closing-night festivities of their BlizzCon conference at the Anaheim Convention Center, CA on August 4.
Filmography
- Christmas Do-Over (2006)
- Lonely Street (2006)
- Community Service (2006)
- Scarface: The World Is Yours (2006)
- The Groomsmen (2006)
- King's Ransom (2005)
- Are We There Yet? (2004)
- Seeing Other People (2004)
- Fastlane (2002) (TV series)
- S1m0ne (2002)
- The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
- Black River (2001)
- Cherry Falls (2000)
- Pay It Forward (2000)
- 200 Cigarettes (1999)
- Go (1999)
- Playing by Heart (1999)
- Small Soldiers (1998)
- Paulie (1998)
- Jane Austen's Mafia! (1998)
- Suicide Kings (1997)
- Picture Perfect (1997)
- Jerry Maguire (1996)
- Mafia! (1996)