John Manard for Super Festivals from Ft. Lauderdale, USA · CC BY 2.0

Pauly Shore parlayed a stint as an MTV VJ into a run of leading roles that defined a strand of 1990s slacker comedy -- Encino Man, Son in Law, In the Army Now, and Bio-Dome among them. He later turned the camera on his own decline with Pauly Shore Is Dead, a semi-autobiographical mockumentary he wrote and directed about his own fictional demise.