About His Career
"I don't know what happened," says
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Shore. "I had a good run for a while.
Sometimes you gotta go away before
you can make a comeback. I just
realized it was time to take a hall
pass and leave for a while. It was just
me; my shtick got tired."
He refuses to badmouth any of his
films, perhaps feeling that the critics
did a good enough job. "I didn't go
into any of my movies thinking they
were going to fail," he adds.
Minding the Store is surprisingly
funny and at times touching. Only
the first two of five episodes were
released to the media. In one, Pauly
invites his father to open for him on
a two-night tour. Sammy accepts and
kills. Kills.
Pauly watches off stage, with tears
in his eyes. Whatever bad feelings
existed between the two of them are
apparently gone.
The real battle is with his mom,
who is never seen on camera. She's
just a voice on the phone, saying no
Family Troubles
to every idea Pauly proposes. No,
Ah, yes, the family aspect. Daddy
she doesn't want "Sexy Women of
Shore's biggest success was as an
Comedy Night." No, she doesn't
opening act for Elvis and Tony
want food service. The trick is for
Orlando. He earned the "Best
Pauly to convince her he's right — or
Opening Comedy Act" award from
to keep her from finding out.
the Atlantic City press corps, but
Pauly shares the show with other
that was like being voted first run-
comics/employees of the store; and,
ner-up in that other Atlantic City
while some of the show seems rigged,
show. You remember, Miss What's-
Pauly says, "all of it stems from
Her-State.
"He wasn't around," Pauley says. "I truth. The whole food thing. I really
wanted to do food at the store, and
love my dad. He's awesome. But it
obviously my mother didn't."
wasn't one of those traditional happy
"Sexy Women of Comedy Night"
families. I was an accident. It wasn't
worked. And the show can, too.
like I was born, and they said,
What does Shore want out of it? "I
`Great!' I was born and they said,
hope people see it and say [I've
`Oh [expletive]
matured] — and that business at the
Told that it seems like a lot of
Comedy Store gets better."
weight to carry, Shore agrees: "I'm
And, of course, he wants to resur-
carrying it right now. And I gotta let
rect
his career. "I'd like for [the
go.
show] to get picked up for one more
He seems to have made some
season. From there, I can take a
progress. If he hasn't gotten rid of
breath and re-establish my team, my
the entire load weighing him down,
agent and manager. Once I get all
he seems to have dropped much of
that going and have a hit show, I'm
his angst and matured. His hair is
more likely to be cast in other
shorter. He no longer talks in the
things."
kind of baby talk that used to drive
It will also give him time to return
young people into gales of laughter
to his roots. "When I was younger,
(and older people crazy). And he's
we celebrated Chanukah a lot, and I
realistic about his life and prospects.
went to temple. But as I got older,
"I'm different now," he says. "That
that lessened. It's something I want
Weasel thing (his trademark persona
to get back to. I want to be a bar
a
of the Weasel from Totally Pauly,
mitzvah." ❑
combination of spaced-out surfer
dude and the horniest teenager alive)
was cute in my 20s, but you don't
want to do that in your 30s."
minding is the famed Comedy Store
in Los Angeles, founded by his
father, comic Sammy Shore, and
mom, Mitzi, and awarded to his
mother as part of his parents' divorce
settlement.
Like Pauly's career, the store ran
into hard times; Pauly took it over
around three years ago at Mitzi's
request. "I thought trying to get the
store going and my career going and
my personal life together would be a
cool idea for a show," he says.
It took him about two years to
find an interested network. Shore
won't say how many he approached
before Turner programming execu-
tive Steve Koonin gave the project a
green light. "TBS seemed the most
excited, and Steve Koonin loves the
show and the family aspect of the
business," says Shore.
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