John Lehr
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John C. Lehr (born November 25, 1965), an American film and television actor and comedian.
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[edit] Personal
Lehr was born on November 25, 1965 in Overland Park, Kansas. He is Jewish, having converted to Judaism in 2000.[1]
In September 2007, an interview started circulating around the internet between Lehr and co-star Nancy Hower, in which Lehr appears to start choking. Hower assumes this is one of his improvisational jokes but he quickly falls to the ground as a crew member begins the Heimlich maneuver.
Lehr admitted in a subsequent interview on The Insider which aired on September 25, 2007, that the entire event was staged.
A subsequent video (also presumably staged) was released in the same style, in which Lehr and Hower are recording an apology to those offended by their choking hoax. In the course of apologizing, Lehr again pretends to choke, but this time no one around him shows any concern and he quickly stops pretending. Just then, a large piece of equipment falls on Lehr's head, to the horror of everyone around him. Lehr falls to the ground out of camera view as people are heard yelling "Call 911" and "There's a big cut in his head."
He appears in the Christina Applegate movie The Sweetest Thing as a man driving in a golf cart on a driving range being hit by balls he is credited as "Ralph".
He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988.
In the late 80s while attending Northwestern he substitute taught at Kilmer Elementary School on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. He later received his teaching certificate and taught full time at Kilmer Elementary.
[edit] Stagework
In 2004, his one man shows THE LEHR CURSE: A SERIES OF COMEDIC LECTURES ran Off-Broadway[citation needed]. Lehr is an alumnus of Mee-Ow, an improv group at Northwestern University.
[edit] Sitcom career
Lehr stars, writes and executive produces in the TBS (TV network) television series, 10 Items or Less, which premiered in November 2006. The second season premiered in January 2008. Season three premiered in January 2009.
Before 10 Items, he played Christina Applegate's brother in Jesse during its first season (1998).
[edit] Television commercials
[edit] Geico
Lehr played one of the GEICO Cavemen in a popular series of commercials for the auto insurance company GEICO. Two of the other actors in the commercials were Jeffrey Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber.
Lehr appeared in the first ad, in which the caveman is a worker holding a boom mike on the set of a television commercial. He gets upset about the tenor of the commercial and its demeaning comments about caveman, and storms off the set.
In a later ad, he plays a caveman being counseled by a therapist played by Talia Shire.
In a February 2009 interview on Anytime with Bob Kushell, Lehr stated that the caveman makeup took about three hours to apply.[2]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Bloom, Nate (2006-11-24). "Celebrity Jews". The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California. http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/30962/format/html/displaystory.html. Retrieved 2006-11-22.
- ^ "Anytime with Bob Kushell feat. John Lehr". Anytime with Bob Kushell. 2009-02-19. No. 11, season 1.
[edit] External links
- John Lehr at the Internet Movie Database
- Official website
- Interview with John Lehr at WickedInfo.com
- "The Cats' Mee-Ow" from Northwestern magazine
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