When Jay Mohr was a boy growing up in Verona, New Jersey, he dreamed of becoming a comedian. In high school, he was mostly an unsuccessful class cutup with a comedic batting average even lower than his SATs. "I was more annoying than funny," Mohr has said. "I wasn't the guy everyone liked. I was the guy that wouldn't shut up." His first brush with an appreciative audience occurred at a teen comedy night at a nearby stand-up club where the laughs came freely. Soon, Mohr was a traveling teen comic with two rules from Mom: "Don't say the F-word, and no comedy on a school night." The gag orders were canceled after graduation when he began pursuing comedy full-time. In 1991, at age 20, Mohr landed a real job hosting MTV's mouthing-to-the-oldies game show, Lip Service.