Meyer played several roles as a druggie, starting with his debut in ''
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991), in which he was dispatched in a video game. His breakthrough screen role was in the teen hit Clueless (1995) as the skateboarding stoner. Meyer offered similar characterizations in The Craft'' and John Carpenter's
Escape from L.A. (both 1996). He played the best friend of an Olympic hopeful in the biopic
Prefontaine (1997) and a high-school student yearning to leave his hometown in
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81 (1998). In
54 (also 1998), a look at life in the famous '70s nightspot
Studio 54, the actor was cast as a busboy married to the coat check girl (
Salma Hayek) and pursued by a bartender (
Ryan Phillippe). Meyer is close friends with Phillippe, with whom he and
Seth Green share a production company. Meyer would subsequently appear in films including
Go (1999) and
The Insider (1999) before graduating to a full-fledged leading role in the
DreamWorks hit
Road Trip (2000), in which he again played a character traveling cross country, a college student hoping desperately to retrieve a videotape of himself having sex with another girl, which was accidentally mailed to his long-distance girlfriend. He re-teamed with
Amy Smart in yet another racing cross country film, this time as part of the multi-plot ensemble of
Rat Race (2001), a sort-of homage to the all-star screwball chase films of the 1960s, such as ''
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World''. Meyer put in a supporting turn as
Meg Ryan's character's brother in the whimsical fantasy-comedy
Kate & Leopold (2001). Meyer also took on the role of
Jon Arbuckle, the hapless owner of the famed comic strip cat in the film adaptation of
Garfield (2004). Meyer also starred in
Blue State (2007) with
Anna Paquin in which he plays a passionately liberal guy on the campaign trail for
John Kerry in the 2004 elections. He drunkenly pledges to move to Canada if Bush wins the election, and on his journey meets a mysterious young woman, played by Paquin. He co-starred with
Matthew McConaughey in
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009). Meyer starred opposite
Emily Kinney and Giselle Eisenberg in the independent dark comedy
The Enormity of Life (2021) about a suicidal man struggling with life and love. Meyer regularly does writing and voice work on
Robot Chicken, and was nominated for an Emmy for his writing on the
Robot Chicken: Star Wars specials. He also voiced the adolescent Joseph Gribble on the animated series
King of the Hill and starred on the
Adult Swim series
Titan Maximum. Meyer is also a musician, playing drums in the punk band The Street Walkin' Cheetahs as well as with artists including
The Nightwatchman,
Ben Harper,
Cypress Hill,
Slash and
Perry Farrell at L.A.'s
Hotel Café. Meyer was the drummer for
the Nightwatchman's (
Tom Morello) backing band, called The Freedom Fighter Orchestra. Meyer toured with the Nightwatchman's 2008 Justice Tour. He appears in
Street Sweeper Social Club's video for "100 Little Curses" and "
Promenade". ==Personal life==