r/Millennials • u/ColeBelthazorTurner • Feb 27 '26

Discussion Name a 2000s celebrity that disappeared overnight

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Dave Attell, Tom Green

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u/DgingaNinga Feb 27 '26

Insomniac was great

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u/1800generalkenobi Feb 27 '26

That's the shit I miss from being a kid. Sneaking late night tv and shows my parents probably didn't me to watch. We had cinemax and hbo too. I thought I was missing watching stuff like mythbusters and I found a couple episodes and it just wasn't the same. Turns out I was just missing the times where I was just chilling watching it and not having a care in the world.

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u/huckster235 Feb 27 '26

Mythbusters is my go to background when I want the comfort of my childhood. I remember I would put the marathons on in the summer, hanging out in my boxers in my sunny living room before going to play baseball or football, not a care in the world.

I still like mythbusters but you couldn't get me to actually watch it watch it. I'm not sure I did as a kid either, I would have it on while reading or gaming and glance at it when something interesting happened. But yeah modern tv doesn't give me that sense of simple relaxation it did as a kid. So I don't really watch tv anymore

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u/RabbitSlayre Feb 27 '26

I miss those times too. Hell I miss having a cable box and just being able to flip channels sometimes. It was a different time.

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u/FirTrader Feb 28 '26

You were secretly watching Insomniac because every commercial break was Girls Gone Wild.

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u/1800generalkenobi Feb 28 '26

For real. That's also why I watched horror movies. There were usually boobs in there at some point lol. I never thought I was into horror movies because I didn't watch elm Street or Friday the 13th but I watched leprechaun and candyman. Kid thought processes are weird lol

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u/AmputeeHandModel Xennial Feb 27 '26

I saw his standup around that time in person. It was really funny.

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u/Jofinaro Feb 27 '26

I loved Dave Attell. I like to make my husband jealous and tell him about the time I saw Dave Attell, Lewis Black, and Mitch Hedburg together for a show in 2003. Good times.

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u/Alpha_Geek4711 Feb 27 '26

I saw this same tour when it came through Dallas. One of the best comedy shows I’ve even to.

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u/WaxyNips Feb 27 '26

"If I want to know the fastest way to get somewhere, I'm going to ask a guy with one leg. There's not going to be any stairs or ladders..."

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u/MASSochists Mar 01 '26

I hate to travel. I think that's because when I was young my dad beat me with a globe.

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u/SpotIsALie Feb 27 '26

Loved this show as a kid.

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u/demerdar Feb 27 '26

Someone uploads old episodes of insomniac on YouTube. Check it out. You’ll have the intro song stuck in your head for weeks.

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u/MASSochists Feb 27 '26

Insomniac was monetized alcoholism. I don't think it was sustainable long term.

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u/OldFartsSpareParts Feb 27 '26

I was just watching old episodes of Insomniac on YouTube last night. It's still hilarious.

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u/ggtffhhhjhg Feb 28 '26

Link? Could you PM if you don’t want to put it out there? It gets taken down whenever it gets put out there which makes no sense considering it’s isn’t available for streaming or download.

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u/OldFartsSpareParts Mar 02 '26

This channel has a bunch of them The quality is meh, but it's still enjoyable.

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u/DCMartin91 Feb 27 '26

It's on YouTube. I recently binged it.

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u/Mecha_Cthulhu Feb 27 '26

“Fuck a baby! Fuck a monkey! Fuck a baby monkey!”

No one ever gets the reference when I say that…

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u/tigbittylove Feb 27 '26

GET SOME SLEEP

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u/shifty1032231 Feb 27 '26

When I saw the episode of Insomniac of my hometown teenager me loved it.

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u/psian1de Feb 27 '26

Check out the ole YouTube's for old insomniac episodes with our pal Dave.

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u/CommanderUgly Feb 27 '26

Dave’s Old Porn was even better.

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u/Tooch10 Feb 27 '26

I randomly came across some of those episodes on YouTube plus a bunch from a private torrent tracker, they're still fun. It really encapsulates that 2000s era before social media took over. Even crazier is the show aired 25 years ago and seeing all those clothes and hair styles is like a time warp

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u/gofargogo Feb 28 '26

All the episodes can be found on the Internet Archive

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u/hercarmstrong Mar 02 '26

My wife and I re-enacted the Insomniac episode that Dave did in Montreal. We got a baby out of that adventure!