Acting After appearing on
MTV's
Half Hour Comedy Hour show on April 2, 1991, MTV offered him a job hosting music videos as a
VJ, which Mohr turned down. Instead, Mohr ended up hosting the
lip-sync contest game show
Lip Service on
MTV, which earned him a
CableACE Award. He then appeared as a featured player for the
1993–94 and
1994–95 seasons of
Saturday Night Live. His memoir,
Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live, details this difficult period of his life, including his struggle with severe
panic attacks. He later credited his
SNL co-star
Sarah Silverman with saving his life by helping him treat the problem. Mohr's account of his voluntary departure from
SNL has been widely discounted. He was under a cloud of suspicion due to his admitted plagiarism of jokes during the season and his multi-year contract with NBC did not allow him to unilaterally quit. 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 the conniving Bob Sugar, a sleazy sports agent in
Jerry Maguire, followed in 1997 by a starring role in
Picture Perfect with
Jennifer Aniston. In 1999, Mohr starred in the television series
Action, in which he played sleazy film producer Peter Dragon. He was the voice-over artist for
Fox Sports Net's
Beyond the Glory. Mohr appeared in additional movies including
Suicide Kings,
Are We There Yet?,
Small Soldiers,
Go,
Pay It Forward, and
The Groomsmen. Mohr was offered a late night talk show job by
Michael Eisner, but he declined, instead convincing Eisner to let him host a talk show on
ESPN,
Mohr Sports, which ran briefly in 2001 before being cancelled. The talk show job Mohr passed was then offered to
Jimmy Kimmel and became
Jimmy Kimmel Live! 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 was credited as a
consultant. On the season finale of
Last Comic Standing 4, Mohr performed as a guest comedian. His recurring role on the TV series
Ghost Whisperer developed into a regular role. He appeared in "
My Own Private Practice Guy", a 2003 episode of the sitcom
Scrubs, and in three episodes of
The West Wing in 2004 in the recurring role of Taylor Reid. Parts of Mohr's stand up was featured in Comedy Central's animated series ''
Shorties Watchin' Shorties''. In 2005, he and his Giraffe Productions company inked a deal with Sony Pictures Television. Mohr starred as newly divorced father Gary Brooks, the title character, for two seasons on the CBS sitcom
Gary Unmarried.
Paula Marshall played his ex-wife. In January 2010 he took the role as Billy in
Clint Eastwood's thriller film
Hereafter. He also guest-starred on
NBC's
Outlaw in 2010. He has an upcoming starring role alongside
Tom Blyth in the comedy
Discussion Materials adapted from
Bill Keenan's memoir of the same name.
Radio Mohr has contributed frequently to
The Jim Rome Show and often guest-hosted the program. Mohr finished in 7th place in the 2007
Smack-Off, 6th place in the 2008 Smack-Off, 10th place in the 2009 Smack-Off, 6th place in the 2010 Smack-Off, and 6th place in the 2011 Smack-Off. Mohr is also known to do "drive-by" call-ins to the show, typically to promote one of his stand-up shows or live events. On January 2, 2013, Mohr replaced Rome on
Fox Sports Radio, as he hosts a daily talk show titled
Jay Mohr Sports in Rome's longtime 12 to 3 p.m. (ET) timeslot, as Rome moved his show from
Premiere Networks (the distributor of Fox Sports Radio) to
CBS Sports Radio. The show can be heard on several internet platforms and regional affiliates. On November 3, 2014, Jay Mohr Sports moved to the 3 to 6pm time slot, so
Rich Eisen could take over the 12-3pm slot on Fox Sports Radio.
Podcast Mohr hosted his own podcast, titled
Mohr Stories, on the
SModcast Network, On May 4, 2012, Mohr announced his amicable departure from the SModcast network. He has since begun hosting
Mohr Stories on his own network, Fake Mustache Studios.
Other work In June 2004, Mohr's first book,
Gasping for Airtime: Two Years in the Trenches of Saturday Night Live, was published by Hyperion and chronicled his two years working on
Saturday Night Live. In May 2010, publisher
Simon & Schuster released Mohr's second book,
No Wonder My Parents Drank: Tales from a Stand-Up Dad. Mohr's album
Happy. And A Lot was nominated for the
Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the
58th Annual Grammy Awards. The material was written by Nikki Cox, his wife at the time. Mohr has hosted the
NASCAR Cup Series Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas since 2013. In 2016, Mohr became the host of the
Los Angeles Rams pregame show airing Saturday evenings after
college football on
KABC-TV. He was replaced as the host in November 2016 with no explanation. ==Personal life==