Background
Shore was born Paul Montgomery Shore, the son of Mitzi Shore (née Saidel), who founded The Comedy Store, and Sammy Shore, a comedian. Shore was raised Jewish, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California.
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Shore was born Paul Montgomery Shore, the son of Mitzi Shore (née Saidel), who founded The Comedy Store, and Sammy Shore, a comedian. Shore was raised Jewish, and grew up in Beverly Hills, California.
He graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1986.
Shore is best known for his roles in several comedy films in the 1990s including Encino Manitoba (1992), Son in Law (1993), and Biology-Dome (1996). He also hosted a video show on Music Television in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Shore"s acting career has declined since the late 1990s.
He has since appeared only infrequently in a number of films and has primarily focused on stand-up comedy.
Stand-up career
"Everyone else in school was filling out their SAT applications, but I just passed mine back. I knew I wasn"t going to go to college." Shore was mentored by Sam Kinison and opened several of his sets.
While touring the comedy club circuit, Shore cultivated an alter ego persona, "The Weasel". "The Weasel" involved Shore speaking in a surfer parlance, heavily peppered with dudespeak slang such as "edged", "melons" and "grinding" as well as his catchphrase, "Hey, BU-DDY."
Music Television
Shore"s big break came as an on-air Music Television VJ, a position he held from 1989 to 1994.
At the height of his Music Television fame, Shore had his own show, Totally Pauly, serving as a host, most memorably on Music Television"s annual Spring Break parties.
He also released a music video, "Lisa, Lisa, the One I Adore". Film career
In 1992, Shore starred in Encino Manitoba which was a modest hit. The film"s success propelled Shore to star in additional personalized vehicles, albeit less successful: Son in Law (1993), In the Army Now (1994), Jury Duty (1995), and Biology-Dome (1996).
All five films received sharply negative reviews, with the last three each holding a rating below 10% at Rotten Tomatoes.
In addition, each of the movies grossed less at the box office than the one before. Shore makes a cameo appearance in the American rock band Limp Bizkit music video "North 2 Gether Now", as a pizza deliveryman, and a briefer appearance in Break Stuff.
In 2003, Shore produced, wrote, directed and starred in Pauly Shore Is Dead, a semi-autobiographical mockumentary, and in 2005 starred in the short-lived reality television series Minding the Store. In 2010 Shore starred in Adopted, which sees him traveling to Africa to adopt a child.
In addition, he has several short subject films and multiple projects in the works such as his Music Television pilot called The Shores and various projects with such as Funny or Die.