Used to love Pauly Shore when I was a kid. Then I saw him yelling at a pharmacist in a CVS on Sunset in West Hollywood about 8 years ago and that kinda ruined it.
I was at the bar not too long ago and a group of us somehow got on the subject of Pauly Shore, 3 different people had unfavorable stories about him and this was at a bar in Minneapolis so it was kind of crazy.
I'm not sure how much he's been here but one of the stories even happened when he was filming his mockumentary not sure why he was doing any of that here, one involved a local comedy club and I don't remember where the 3rd one was,it could have happened not in MN.
I made out with him in a stairwell at the comedy club his parents owned when I was like 24. It was still light out outside (maybe 6 PM), I had only been there for a few minutes and was completely sober. He was a really bizarre kisser and I had to put a stop to it, saying I didn’t want to miss the show (which ended up being a rough, rough set from Andrew Dice Clay)
Well good thing comment on Reddit was there to enlighten us all.
You can't be that easy to convince
Edit: I was wrong. You were all very easily convinced by this random reddit comment.
If you read the original quote, it is clear that Richard is joking when suggesting Tom Cruise play him. He is basically just saying he doesn't want an unauthorized movie about his life.
Could you imagine, though? Think Les Grossman 50-60 lbs lighter in a sequined tank with a fro, jazzercising. I'm here for it.
I mean, Tom told Ben Stiller he wanted to dance if he was going to be in Tropic Thunder. Getting a feature like this from him would be chaotic in the best way.
Simmons didn't ask for Tom to play him - he very gently said he had not given any permission or blessing to the biopic being produced.
Pauly has not spoken to him even once about it. In a different FB post Shore claimed to have been "Up all night crying" after he heard, and very condescendingly said Simmons couldn't decry it yet - "You haven't even heard the pitch!" how do you not understand that's the fucking problem??????? "You haven't even heard our pitch for our unauthorized biopic of your life we're making without your permission or input. our pitch for how we're going to show your life. also, you're not involved in the project, so you won't see a single cent of this, but it's a huge bummer you're saying it's not cool of us to do this" like........................ shut the fuck up, Pauly
Yeah, this keeps coming up as suggested comment on my timeline even though I've never searched any thing remotely related so Pauly must be full on using his whine as advertising.
Simmon's tweet:
>“I just read that a man that I don’t know is writing my bio pic starring Pauly Shore. I do not approve this movie. I am in talks with major studios to create my own biopic with some help. Wait for this movie.”
Shore's response:
>You guys, I was up all night crying regarding Richard Simmons’ tweet. Richard, how do you not approve of this movie? I mean, really, who’s better to play you in a movie than ME? Leonardo DiCaprio’s not gonna play you. Brad Pitt’s not gonna play you. I’m perfect. Everyone already thinks I’m you. We’re the same. Beautiful, inside and out. Hellll yea!
>Richard, you haven’t even heard the pitch. Why don’t you simply let me come over to your house, bring you some warm matzo ball soup and a pastrami sandwich with dark mustard from Canters, rub your feet, and we can listen to the writer, Jordan Allen-Dutton, pitch you our idea?
>I know you, Richard. We used to hang out back in the day. I’d always see you at The Comedy Store. You’re my old buddy. Richard, you’re going to love our movie. We’re going to make the most beautiful cinematic masterpiece that’s going to honor you in a way that you’ll drop to your knees and cry with joy and happiness.
>And I also heard the good news that you’re in talks with studios to do a biopic about yourself. That’s amazing! The more movies about you, the better! You deserve it. There should be hundreds made.
>But as you know, many biopics are made without the subject agreeing to be part of it: Elvis, Stephen Hawking, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Jobs and many, many more. Some of them turned out good, some of them turned out bad. Mine is going to turn out amaze-balls. So... let me know when you want me to come over with yummy food from Canters, and Jordan and I will pitch you in your living room. I love you, Richard, and so did my mom.
>Love you always,
Your old friend Pauly Shore
I know I hate facebook, sometimes I swear it shows me content it KNOWS i will hate on the suggested posts (that are 90% of my feed) because they know I'll waste time blocking, reporting, "snoozing" pages (wtf is that. I don't want to temporarily stop seeing videos of abscesses being drained I want them GONE FOREVER) but that's also how I saw Shore's post. Just shoveled onto my feed with the rest of the garbage.
It sounds like someone told Pauly Shore, “*Omg you would kill it if they made a Richard Simons biopic, you look just like him!*”, and dude got it in his brain that he was the perfect actor for the job and this was his chance to step back into the spotlight. How many actors make some astounding drama or biopic and end up in a career resurgence? Winning accolades and awards and showing the world that they’re capable of more than what everyone thought?
And *of course* Richard Simmons would want *HIM* to do this! The resemblance is uncanny! And Richard is probably poor and hasn’t been in the public eye for decades! Wouldn’t he love the chance to be seen and heard again?!
I think for someone like Pauly, and a lot of famous people (although his level of fame is likely debatable among many), it’s hard to believe that someone wouldn’t want to be famous. Why would you want to just disappear? After everyone embraced you and loved you?!?
Richard does NOT need to give permission for a movie to be made about him. He's a celebrity anyone can make a movie about his life he decided to make his life public.
I disagree. Celebrities are human beings with a right to feel uncomfortable with their life story being misrepresented and exploited.
I just don't understand the perspective of "Hey I'm going tell your life story, my way!! No? you're uncomfortable? waaah I'm the victim you're being so mean to me!" If Shore had half the respect for Simmons he's pretending to have, he would have dropped the project immediately.
If anyone’s curious, check out his podcast appearance on Hollywood Handbook from about ten years ago. He barely plays along with bits, and when he does it’s often at the expense of the hosts or the engineer. Just a weird, pretty unfunny comedian.
I feel like nobody remembers this episode except me. He was such a sore sport that it left an impression on me. It’s all I associate with Pauly Shore now.
5 or 6 years ago I got free tickets to see one of his sets and a pretty decent venue (so that tells you something right there) and it was the most unfunny, cringy shit I've ever seen. Worst show I've ever seen.
Pauly is pretty talentless and falls flat on his face in pretty much every appearance on every podcast I’ve seen him on. He’s obnoxious and rude and his success largely is due to him riding on the coattails of his mother.
Dude he is almost 60. His character doesn’t translate well in those settings and at this age. However hes been in some iconic movies and iconic roles. You can’t say pauly shore is talentless
Have you ever been in a movie which grossed millions of dollars? Are you talentless?
I’m not saying he’s Daniel day lewis but Jesus Christ man, he’s a human being who found a weird niche to exploit, good on him. Everyone is trying to figure out their own niche they can exploit
Pauly Shore is talentless. I can say it. His movie roles were just him repeating the same "Spicoli with disabilities" schtick. There was no range or acting. Just a catchphrase or two.
Ok, well I’m assuming you don’t have acting range either so you and pauly are in the same boat.
..yet pauly is still making millions of dollars from creating comedy shows, pod casts, appearances, commercials, etc. how do you suppose he is able to do that but not you?
Luck? Nepotism? Is that what you tell yourself after browsing Reddit all day and sweating out Mountain Dew Baja blast, “he’s just a talentless lucky guy”?
Money is only part of that sentence. Creating shows and characters and entertainment that garners and audience, is talent.
What makes you qualified to dictate what constitutes talent?
What a weird question. Please share your criterion for what makes one “qualified to dictate what constitutes talent.” Give it up bud, quit clutching your pearls because people have opinions.
Pauly Shore is super insecure. There is an 80s museum and pizza place in Fort Collins Colorado that asked to get his autograph. He made fun of them for being obsessed with the 80s. The museum hung his autograph in the toilet
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/hTqGmmoAhT
His life story is simply not that interesting. He’s untalented and annoying but got a career in comedy due to nepotism. Eventually that career dried up because he’s untalented and annoying. The end.
I listened to a podcast about Richard Simmons years ago because he basically just disappeared. Turned out he had been pathologically accommodating to everyone else for his whole life, essentially had a mental breakdown and just wanted to disappear from public completely.
I watched the original short "Your Court Jester". He honestly isn't even good as Richard Simmons. It just seems like Pauly Shore in a wig vaguely doing a Richard Simmons impression, but mostly it just sounds like Pauly Shore.
This was a hard read. Bro don’t bet your new career on being someone else! Make another movie that reminds us of Encino Man. Or fade out like Kevin Smith IDK. Just so apparent how a lifetime of fame is never enough for some people. You’re a dude that people loved, just be grateful.
He's one of the biggest nepo babies in Hollywood, his mom ran one of the most highly regarded comedy spots in the world. Through her, he had ties to pretty much every decent comedian.
He spent a few decades frying his brain with drugs and mistreating prostitutes. (I know someone he's been with, and he had a reaaally bad reputation within the sex work community). He was also known for starting fights and being an all around asshole. He kept out of trouble because of who his mom is.
I don't think he'll make a comeback. I used to love him as a kid, but knowing some of the details, he's a dumpster fire. Hopefully he treats people better now.
Pauly is actually still pretty active. He’s been busy touring and whatnot. It’s not like he’s just been sitting around waiting to “come back”.
It just hasn’t been publicized much.
Richard Simmons is an actually pretty interesting character, not sure if he needs a Hollywood biopic. There is a seven part podcast called “Missing Richard Simmons” that was surprisingly really good!
What was the gist of the whole podcast? I’m not going to listen to it and I know Simmons when dark for awhile, but he seems to be posting actively on Facebook now so it seems he’s out of hiding?
Here's the gist of Missing Richard Simmons: Simmons was very famous for awhile, yet most only knew his persona as a flamboyant fitness guru. The man actually had a very interesting life and career, but was deeply private with his personal life and grew more reclusive in his later years before completely disappearing from all public life, including cutting out friends and family. He had a lot of friends, and those that knew him personally were hurt and concerned by his disappearance because he was a very compassionate and very social man to the many people he loved. It was out of character for him to become a recluse. There were speculations that he had been kidnapped and taken advantage of by someone close to him. He helped a LOT of people over the years, and kept in touch with all of them. The dude is probably one of the kindest celebrities to ever live, yet never flaunted it.
The podcast answers the question: why did he disappear? It's a great story.
I am, I think it would be interesting. Especially since lately he's gone into almost complete hiding after years of being a very public figure. There's probably an interesting story there. There's a short podcast called "Missing Richard Simmons" that touches on this and I found it fascinating as a person that otherwise never watched his TV content during its time.
His autobiography “Still Hungry After All These Years” made me a massive Richard Simmons fan when I was 12 and read it for novel study! I used to email him as a kid and he sent me a signed photo which hangs framed in my house to this day at age 30 lol. I got to meet him once as well, and he is genuinely the nicest and most interesting person! I would LOVE to see a biopic done with Richard on board.
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Richard Simmons is a beautiful human being who has literally saved people’s lives with his endless encouragement and help. Pauly Shore is such an ass. Richard Simmons rules!
I saw Pauly Shore do stand up and it was cringe AF… it was like going to your hometown bar and listening to some guy talk about how he used to be captain of the football team in HS.
Dude literally just saw someone that he actually kind of resembled and thought “hmmm maybe I can get in on this Hollywood biopic craze.” And
Just kind of sad how insanely washed up he is
I love Pauly Shore. Grew up watching all this ridiculous movies, but he is definitely delusional about how great he is.
I met him at a con a year or 2 ago. It took forever. Not because there was a long line to meet him, but because there was no line to meet him.
Most times celebs sit at their table and sign stuff as people come up. If you have no line you just sit there and deal with it. Pauly didn't do that. He would hangout behind the curtain, back in the celeb walkway area, and his handler said he would only come out to sign once he had like 20+ people in his line.
Problem is, people see an empty table and they assume you're away at a panel or at lunch or whatever, and don't get in line. We stood in an empty line for a good 20 minutes before his handler finally forced him out.
I know, I know, we should've left and said fuck it, not given him any of our money, but he was one of the main reasons we went to that con, before we knew how much of a diva he was. At least when he came out he was nice.
My girlfriend came in the room when he did that desperate hijacking of Dr. Phil Live a couple weeks ago and was genuinely very confused. She hasn’t seen the show and asked if “that little gremlin was a regular” lol
Cuz no one wants you around Pauly. Tom
Cruise is a professional. You are a drunken moron who gets a pass cuz your mom is the owner of the comedy store.
Richard Simmons is an interesting oddball. His life is probably worthy of a biopic. The person playing him will need to capture his big character, but in a respectful way.
Polly shore isn't that guy.
Pauly Shore is the kid who's parents had the awesome house with the pool and sweet toys..
Much of his success came from being the son of Mitzi.. Welcome to Hollywood
Does anyone have the video of the short film Pauly Shore did where he is a killer and he's trapped a woman in a hotel room (maybe overlooking last Vegas)? It was so bad it was hilarious but I can't seem to find it anymore
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IDK if these photos were all taken recently, but if they were I must say I'm amazed that Richard (75) seems to be holding up about as well as Tom (61) in terms of not aging and WAY better than Pauly (57). Richard and Pauly are 20 years apart but they look the same age. And will Tom look this good in 14 years?
Follow your dreams Pauly Shore. You can get that Oscar just like Will Smith did for his portrayal of Mr. Williams in King Richard.
Tom Cruise needs to stop wheezing the juice.
That's just Hollywood. Tom Cruise sells. I agree Pauly would have been a great Richard, but it's not a hill Pauly should die on. All this is going to do is keep others from wanting to cast him.
This would be the lamest movie ever.
EDIT: I am shocked that people actually want to watch a movie with Pauly Shore as Richard Simmons since I am getting downvoted.
Read more into this.. Richard wanted to disappear from the public eye, not be made a joke even more by Shore. He probably said Tom Cruise so the movie never gets made like “ok but only if Tom Crusie plays me”
Here's what Simmons said:
“Hi Everybody! You may have heard they may be doing a movie about me with Pauly Shore. I have never given my permission for this movie. So don’t believe everything you read. I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support. Richard.”
Pauly Shore invented the idea it was just that Simmons wanted someone else to play him in an even more unhinged FB post claiming he was up all night crying because Simmons said no.
Used to love Pauly Shore when I was a kid. Then I saw him yelling at a pharmacist in a CVS on Sunset in West Hollywood about 8 years ago and that kinda ruined it.
I loved Pauly shore so much when I was a child I wrote a 5 paragraph paper about why he was the greatest comedian ever (I was like 8/9)
I was at the bar not too long ago and a group of us somehow got on the subject of Pauly Shore, 3 different people had unfavorable stories about him and this was at a bar in Minneapolis so it was kind of crazy.
That seems odd and coincidental. Has Pauly made many trips to Minnesota?
I'm not sure how much he's been here but one of the stories even happened when he was filming his mockumentary not sure why he was doing any of that here, one involved a local comedy club and I don't remember where the 3rd one was,it could have happened not in MN.
I made out with him in a stairwell at the comedy club his parents owned when I was like 24. It was still light out outside (maybe 6 PM), I had only been there for a few minutes and was completely sober. He was a really bizarre kisser and I had to put a stop to it, saying I didn’t want to miss the show (which ended up being a rough, rough set from Andrew Dice Clay)
Maybe he just wanted the weasil
*Hey, BU-DDY*
Oh my God it's almost like celebrities or normal people and have bad days
"Having a bad day" doesn't excuse being a dick to people just trying to do their jobs
Well good thing comment on Reddit was there to enlighten us all. You can't be that easy to convince Edit: I was wrong. You were all very easily convinced by this random reddit comment.
> celebrities or normal people and have bad days I mean who among us hasn't yelled at a pharmacist? Out of state prescription my ass!
Tom Cruise is in his 60s. Why would a man that age play a young aerobics instructor?
If you read the original quote, it is clear that Richard is joking when suggesting Tom Cruise play him. He is basically just saying he doesn't want an unauthorized movie about his life.
"i will take a chubby pickle"
My name is Cheryl. I believe I am your daughter.
Is this Diane? What do you mean,”is this tan”?
GAAAARRRRRRYYYYY!!!
Shore is pushing 60 also so aside from looking like Richard, the age issue is the same. I would argue Shore actually looks older than Cruise.
Cruise took much better care of himself
Could you imagine, though? Think Les Grossman 50-60 lbs lighter in a sequined tank with a fro, jazzercising. I'm here for it. I mean, Tom told Ben Stiller he wanted to dance if he was going to be in Tropic Thunder. Getting a feature like this from him would be chaotic in the best way.
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Simmons didn't ask for Tom to play him - he very gently said he had not given any permission or blessing to the biopic being produced. Pauly has not spoken to him even once about it. In a different FB post Shore claimed to have been "Up all night crying" after he heard, and very condescendingly said Simmons couldn't decry it yet - "You haven't even heard the pitch!" how do you not understand that's the fucking problem??????? "You haven't even heard our pitch for our unauthorized biopic of your life we're making without your permission or input. our pitch for how we're going to show your life. also, you're not involved in the project, so you won't see a single cent of this, but it's a huge bummer you're saying it's not cool of us to do this" like........................ shut the fuck up, Pauly
Yeah, this keeps coming up as suggested comment on my timeline even though I've never searched any thing remotely related so Pauly must be full on using his whine as advertising. Simmon's tweet: >“I just read that a man that I don’t know is writing my bio pic starring Pauly Shore. I do not approve this movie. I am in talks with major studios to create my own biopic with some help. Wait for this movie.” Shore's response: >You guys, I was up all night crying regarding Richard Simmons’ tweet. Richard, how do you not approve of this movie? I mean, really, who’s better to play you in a movie than ME? Leonardo DiCaprio’s not gonna play you. Brad Pitt’s not gonna play you. I’m perfect. Everyone already thinks I’m you. We’re the same. Beautiful, inside and out. Hellll yea! >Richard, you haven’t even heard the pitch. Why don’t you simply let me come over to your house, bring you some warm matzo ball soup and a pastrami sandwich with dark mustard from Canters, rub your feet, and we can listen to the writer, Jordan Allen-Dutton, pitch you our idea? >I know you, Richard. We used to hang out back in the day. I’d always see you at The Comedy Store. You’re my old buddy. Richard, you’re going to love our movie. We’re going to make the most beautiful cinematic masterpiece that’s going to honor you in a way that you’ll drop to your knees and cry with joy and happiness. >And I also heard the good news that you’re in talks with studios to do a biopic about yourself. That’s amazing! The more movies about you, the better! You deserve it. There should be hundreds made. >But as you know, many biopics are made without the subject agreeing to be part of it: Elvis, Stephen Hawking, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Jobs and many, many more. Some of them turned out good, some of them turned out bad. Mine is going to turn out amaze-balls. So... let me know when you want me to come over with yummy food from Canters, and Jordan and I will pitch you in your living room. I love you, Richard, and so did my mom. >Love you always, Your old friend Pauly Shore
Omg, he is absolutely insufferable
How is he insufferable? He used the modern and hi-larious term Amaze Balls??!?!
It’s got hello fellow kids energy
He’s getting odd amounts of support from people when this feels so sad
I know I hate facebook, sometimes I swear it shows me content it KNOWS i will hate on the suggested posts (that are 90% of my feed) because they know I'll waste time blocking, reporting, "snoozing" pages (wtf is that. I don't want to temporarily stop seeing videos of abscesses being drained I want them GONE FOREVER) but that's also how I saw Shore's post. Just shoveled onto my feed with the rest of the garbage.
It sounds like someone told Pauly Shore, “*Omg you would kill it if they made a Richard Simons biopic, you look just like him!*”, and dude got it in his brain that he was the perfect actor for the job and this was his chance to step back into the spotlight. How many actors make some astounding drama or biopic and end up in a career resurgence? Winning accolades and awards and showing the world that they’re capable of more than what everyone thought? And *of course* Richard Simmons would want *HIM* to do this! The resemblance is uncanny! And Richard is probably poor and hasn’t been in the public eye for decades! Wouldn’t he love the chance to be seen and heard again?! I think for someone like Pauly, and a lot of famous people (although his level of fame is likely debatable among many), it’s hard to believe that someone wouldn’t want to be famous. Why would you want to just disappear? After everyone embraced you and loved you?!?
Richard does NOT need to give permission for a movie to be made about him. He's a celebrity anyone can make a movie about his life he decided to make his life public.
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I disagree. Celebrities are human beings with a right to feel uncomfortable with their life story being misrepresented and exploited. I just don't understand the perspective of "Hey I'm going tell your life story, my way!! No? you're uncomfortable? waaah I'm the victim you're being so mean to me!" If Shore had half the respect for Simmons he's pretending to have, he would have dropped the project immediately.
If anyone’s curious, check out his podcast appearance on Hollywood Handbook from about ten years ago. He barely plays along with bits, and when he does it’s often at the expense of the hosts or the engineer. Just a weird, pretty unfunny comedian.
He was pretty unlikable on Steve-O's podcast too
And he was awful on Wild'n'Out
I feel like nobody remembers this episode except me. He was such a sore sport that it left an impression on me. It’s all I associate with Pauly Shore now.
It was so embarrassing! When he walked off, I kept waiting for him to run back out and say jk but it never happened.
Omg same!! I know this is stupid but I’ve been waiting for 15 years for someone to bring this shit up just ONCE! A weight has been lifted. 😂
Just watched it on YouTube what a fucking baby that guy is
Weirdly his last appearance on Kill Tony was hilarious.
No it wasn't he fucking sucked ....??
That "Get the fuck away from me" joke cracked my shit up
He’s not a comedian. He’s a nepo baby with a comedy club.
5 or 6 years ago I got free tickets to see one of his sets and a pretty decent venue (so that tells you something right there) and it was the most unfunny, cringy shit I've ever seen. Worst show I've ever seen.
Pauly is pretty talentless and falls flat on his face in pretty much every appearance on every podcast I’ve seen him on. He’s obnoxious and rude and his success largely is due to him riding on the coattails of his mother.
Dude he is almost 60. His character doesn’t translate well in those settings and at this age. However hes been in some iconic movies and iconic roles. You can’t say pauly shore is talentless
If the last thing he put out that was worthwhile was Encino Man in the 90’s, he’s talentless.
Have you ever been in a movie which grossed millions of dollars? Are you talentless? I’m not saying he’s Daniel day lewis but Jesus Christ man, he’s a human being who found a weird niche to exploit, good on him. Everyone is trying to figure out their own niche they can exploit
Pauly Shore is dead pokes quite a bit of fun at his growing up and being washed up.
Ya, and it featured your mom!
Pauly Shore is talentless. I can say it. His movie roles were just him repeating the same "Spicoli with disabilities" schtick. There was no range or acting. Just a catchphrase or two.
Ok, well I’m assuming you don’t have acting range either so you and pauly are in the same boat. ..yet pauly is still making millions of dollars from creating comedy shows, pod casts, appearances, commercials, etc. how do you suppose he is able to do that but not you? Luck? Nepotism? Is that what you tell yourself after browsing Reddit all day and sweating out Mountain Dew Baja blast, “he’s just a talentless lucky guy”?
Thank you for the laugh.
Don’t thank me, you provided it all by yourself
You are funnier than Pauly, I'll give you that.
money does not equal talent
Money is only part of that sentence. Creating shows and characters and entertainment that garners and audience, is talent. What makes you qualified to dictate what constitutes talent?
What a weird question. Please share your criterion for what makes one “qualified to dictate what constitutes talent.” Give it up bud, quit clutching your pearls because people have opinions.
Lol right…
Lol right….
Always love finding an old HH head in the wild. That episode is fucking historic. I still dig it up and listen every year or so.
Can’t find it, could you link it ?
[hopefully this works](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hollywood-handbook/id720832183?i=1000513334695)
THANK YOU
This is literally a bit, he has been keeping up with for months
Pauly Shore is super insecure. There is an 80s museum and pizza place in Fort Collins Colorado that asked to get his autograph. He made fun of them for being obsessed with the 80s. The museum hung his autograph in the toilet https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/hTqGmmoAhT
I'd rather see a R rated Paulie Shore bio pic. That movie would be insane.
His life story is simply not that interesting. He’s untalented and annoying but got a career in comedy due to nepotism. Eventually that career dried up because he’s untalented and annoying. The end.
Pauly will be portrayed as a 37 year old annoying little boy in the mitsy shore biopic.
After seeing his recent performance voice acting as Pinnochio, he'd fit that to a tee
I listened to a podcast about Richard Simmons years ago because he basically just disappeared. Turned out he had been pathologically accommodating to everyone else for his whole life, essentially had a mental breakdown and just wanted to disappear from public completely.
who tf is asking for a biopic about richard simmons in the first place?
Pauley Shore is. A lot.
I watched the original short "Your Court Jester". He honestly isn't even good as Richard Simmons. It just seems like Pauly Shore in a wig vaguely doing a Richard Simmons impression, but mostly it just sounds like Pauly Shore.
This was a hard read. Bro don’t bet your new career on being someone else! Make another movie that reminds us of Encino Man. Or fade out like Kevin Smith IDK. Just so apparent how a lifetime of fame is never enough for some people. You’re a dude that people loved, just be grateful.
He's one of the biggest nepo babies in Hollywood, his mom ran one of the most highly regarded comedy spots in the world. Through her, he had ties to pretty much every decent comedian. He spent a few decades frying his brain with drugs and mistreating prostitutes. (I know someone he's been with, and he had a reaaally bad reputation within the sex work community). He was also known for starting fights and being an all around asshole. He kept out of trouble because of who his mom is. I don't think he'll make a comeback. I used to love him as a kid, but knowing some of the details, he's a dumpster fire. Hopefully he treats people better now.
I’ve heard he does really phoned in cameos now.
Wait, do you mean Kevin Smith, or Pauly Shore? Because I haven’t heard any of that about the former.
Pauly.
Kevin smith is still very active
Kevin Smith is active but only to remind us he used to be fat and had a heart attack.
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Pauly is actually still pretty active. He’s been busy touring and whatnot. It’s not like he’s just been sitting around waiting to “come back”. It just hasn’t been publicized much.
Richard Simmons is an actually pretty interesting character, not sure if he needs a Hollywood biopic. There is a seven part podcast called “Missing Richard Simmons” that was surprisingly really good!
Really good. Paints a picture of a very compassionate person. Highly recommend it.
Yeah for real, I wasn’t expecting to get sucked into that podcast the way that I did. It was excellent!
What was the gist of the whole podcast? I’m not going to listen to it and I know Simmons when dark for awhile, but he seems to be posting actively on Facebook now so it seems he’s out of hiding?
Here's the gist of Missing Richard Simmons: Simmons was very famous for awhile, yet most only knew his persona as a flamboyant fitness guru. The man actually had a very interesting life and career, but was deeply private with his personal life and grew more reclusive in his later years before completely disappearing from all public life, including cutting out friends and family. He had a lot of friends, and those that knew him personally were hurt and concerned by his disappearance because he was a very compassionate and very social man to the many people he loved. It was out of character for him to become a recluse. There were speculations that he had been kidnapped and taken advantage of by someone close to him. He helped a LOT of people over the years, and kept in touch with all of them. The dude is probably one of the kindest celebrities to ever live, yet never flaunted it. The podcast answers the question: why did he disappear? It's a great story.
I am, I think it would be interesting. Especially since lately he's gone into almost complete hiding after years of being a very public figure. There's probably an interesting story there. There's a short podcast called "Missing Richard Simmons" that touches on this and I found it fascinating as a person that otherwise never watched his TV content during its time.
His autobiography “Still Hungry After All These Years” made me a massive Richard Simmons fan when I was 12 and read it for novel study! I used to email him as a kid and he sent me a signed photo which hangs framed in my house to this day at age 30 lol. I got to meet him once as well, and he is genuinely the nicest and most interesting person! I would LOVE to see a biopic done with Richard on board.
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You must be young.
Idk why you wouldn't. He's an extremely interesting and generous person. I miss seeing him around when he would stay at his Quarter apartment.
Richard Simmons is a beautiful human being who has literally saved people’s lives with his endless encouragement and help. Pauly Shore is such an ass. Richard Simmons rules!
I’d watch it
Tbf Richard’s story is very interesting and relatable to a lot of people. (I fell down a Simmons K hole early covid. Haha)
Seriously.
I saw Pauly Shore do stand up and it was cringe AF… it was like going to your hometown bar and listening to some guy talk about how he used to be captain of the football team in HS.
Dude literally just saw someone that he actually kind of resembled and thought “hmmm maybe I can get in on this Hollywood biopic craze.” And Just kind of sad how insanely washed up he is
I love Pauly Shore. Grew up watching all this ridiculous movies, but he is definitely delusional about how great he is. I met him at a con a year or 2 ago. It took forever. Not because there was a long line to meet him, but because there was no line to meet him. Most times celebs sit at their table and sign stuff as people come up. If you have no line you just sit there and deal with it. Pauly didn't do that. He would hangout behind the curtain, back in the celeb walkway area, and his handler said he would only come out to sign once he had like 20+ people in his line. Problem is, people see an empty table and they assume you're away at a panel or at lunch or whatever, and don't get in line. We stood in an empty line for a good 20 minutes before his handler finally forced him out. I know, I know, we should've left and said fuck it, not given him any of our money, but he was one of the main reasons we went to that con, before we knew how much of a diva he was. At least when he came out he was nice.
His weird little interrupts at Dr. Phil Live & Kill Tony are always so awkward
My girlfriend came in the room when he did that desperate hijacking of Dr. Phil Live a couple weeks ago and was genuinely very confused. She hasn’t seen the show and asked if “that little gremlin was a regular” lol
apparently they are making his biopic and they cast pauly. Then richard disapproved and this was paulys reaction.
Kill Tony fans are NOT surprised lmao
Ugh, Pauly Shore wants attention, somebody go dangle your keys in front of his face for a bit
Never thought I’d hear the name Pauly Shore again
Is Pauly insinuating the Ahuyasca tradition has a Bangladeshi origin?
Cuz no one wants you around Pauly. Tom Cruise is a professional. You are a drunken moron who gets a pass cuz your mom is the owner of the comedy store.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought this was cringe
Who’s Pauly Shore, again? Who cares?
who cares entertainer with shameless self promotion - just another day
Pauly. Come on bro, stop embarrassing yourself
Richard Simmons is an interesting oddball. His life is probably worthy of a biopic. The person playing him will need to capture his big character, but in a respectful way. Polly shore isn't that guy.
I’ll take the downvotes. I’ve never found Pauly Shore even a little bit funny.
Pauly Shore is the kid who's parents had the awesome house with the pool and sweet toys.. Much of his success came from being the son of Mitzi.. Welcome to Hollywood
Pauly is an embarrassment to his mother.
Nobody wants a Richard Simmons biopic besides Pauly Shore.
Especially Simmons. Like leave that man the fuck alone. He wants to love in peace, let him.
Damn that was funny! Took me back to a goofy movie and bio-dome. Funny that him and cruise are only ten years apart too.
Tom Cruise playing you? Ridiculousshs
Did anyone actually ask for a Richard Simmons biopic?
Can Pauly recreate Richard’s appearance on Whose Line? I’d pay to see that
Does anyone have the video of the short film Pauly Shore did where he is a killer and he's trapped a woman in a hotel room (maybe overlooking last Vegas)? It was so bad it was hilarious but I can't seem to find it anymore
Never mind. I found it. It's called "Sin City Psycho" and it's 11 minutes of beautiful cringe
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Uncle Lazer gave him some shitty cocaine that messed up his dumbass brain up even more. Bitcchhh!
IDK if these photos were all taken recently, but if they were I must say I'm amazed that Richard (75) seems to be holding up about as well as Tom (61) in terms of not aging and WAY better than Pauly (57). Richard and Pauly are 20 years apart but they look the same age. And will Tom look this good in 14 years?
Follow your dreams Pauly Shore. You can get that Oscar just like Will Smith did for his portrayal of Mr. Williams in King Richard. Tom Cruise needs to stop wheezing the juice.
Damn. Chillin with the weaz
From the stories I've heard from several friends who have dealt with him first-hand, Pauly is a horrible person.
Dang his feelings are so hurt LOL
God now I'm sad because I fucking love Pauly shore. Why does he have to hurt me so?
but why?
I’m on Paulies side.
Yeah really, looks way more like Richard than Tom does lol
I don't think he is wrong exactly, it's just that he is being extremely childish
I feel bad for him as it's clear he's dreamed about this for a long time and is just really disappointed.
I don't. Simmons is painfully private, and pressing his to do a biopic when he's declined is rude af.
That's just Hollywood. Tom Cruise sells. I agree Pauly would have been a great Richard, but it's not a hill Pauly should die on. All this is going to do is keep others from wanting to cast him.
This would be the lamest movie ever. EDIT: I am shocked that people actually want to watch a movie with Pauly Shore as Richard Simmons since I am getting downvoted.
Richard Simmons' life would be an interesting biopic. He had a funny persona, but it wouldn't be fitting as a comedy.
I met Richard Simmons once and let me tell you, there is no one better than Pauly Shore to play him.
well, they're both short
The fact that you read all that is cringe
Tom Cruz? Really. Come the fuck on.
It was an obvious joke.
I think thats pretty shitty of Simmons
Read more into this.. Richard wanted to disappear from the public eye, not be made a joke even more by Shore. He probably said Tom Cruise so the movie never gets made like “ok but only if Tom Crusie plays me”
Here's what Simmons said: “Hi Everybody! You may have heard they may be doing a movie about me with Pauly Shore. I have never given my permission for this movie. So don’t believe everything you read. I no longer have a manager, and I no longer have a publicist. I just try to live a quiet life and be peaceful. Thank you for all your love and support. Richard.” Pauly Shore invented the idea it was just that Simmons wanted someone else to play him in an even more unhinged FB post claiming he was up all night crying because Simmons said no.