Pauly Shore Gets ‘Under America’s Skin’
The Last Laugh
The Daily Beast
4.6 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Pauly Shore rose to massive fame in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, first with his MTV show ‘Totally Pauly’ and then in hit films like ‘Encino Man,’ ‘Son in Law’ and ‘Bio-Dome.’ Now he’s back with his first starring role in a long time in the new movie ‘Guest House.’ In this episode, Pauly opens up about his early years growing up in The Comedy Store, the surreal experience of becoming one of the most famous people on the planet and the challenge of watching it all come crashing down more than 20 years ago. He also shares stories about meeting Donald Trump at MTV’s Spring Break, playing Stephen Miller for Funny or Die and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | If, like me, you grew up in the 80s and 90s, today's guest needs no introduction. |
| 0:11.7 | This is the Last Laugh. I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast, and today I am joined by the Weasel himself, |
| 0:23.6 | Polly Shore. There was a time when Polly Shore was pretty much the most famous person on the planet. |
| 0:30.5 | He followed up his massively popular MTV show Totally Polly with a string of comedy hits |
| 0:36.5 | that included Encino Man, Sun-in-law, |
| 0:39.5 | in the Army Now, and Biodome. Then, he more or less fell off the face of the earth. |
| 0:45.5 | Now he's back, with a new movie called Guest House and a podcast, Polly Shore's Random Rants, |
| 0:52.3 | where he talks about whatever happens to be on his mind that week. |
| 0:56.1 | We get into all of it on this episode, from his unique childhood growing up in the comedy store in |
| 1:02.6 | L.A. to his unlikely rise to fame and ultimate fall into semi-obscurity. |
| 1:08.9 | I thought it was a fascinating conversation that you are not going to want to miss. |
| 1:14.4 | So here it is, me with Polly Shore. So what's going on? Are you in L.A. now or where are you at? |
| 1:21.1 | No, I moved to Las Vegas. Oh, wow. How's that been going? I like it. Yeah. How long ago did you make that move? |
| 1:26.8 | I've been here almost two months. Yeah. What's the kind of vibe in Vegas right now? I like it. Yeah. How long ago did you make that move? I've been here almost two months. |
| 1:28.4 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.7 | What's the kind of vibe in Vegas right now? |
| 1:30.7 | Well, it's a lot happier than in L.A. |
| 1:33.1 | As far as like the governor, you know, restaurants, gyms, a lot of stuff's open. |
| 1:38.3 | You know, all the hotels are open, most of them. And LA's too sensitive for me right now, you know, and I've been there my whole life, |
| 1:45.3 | and it was just kind of time to try something new. Too sensitive in terms of everything being |
| 1:50.2 | shut down and clothes and everything? Yeah, it's crazy, you know? Yeah, it is crazy. Yeah, I'm in |
| 1:56.4 | LA and, yeah, everything's been very shut down for quite a while. It's hard to know what's the right thing, |
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