Comedian Pauly Shore is ready to open up about his “rise and fall from fame” in a “juicy” new memoir he’s shopping to publishers, Page Six has exclusively learned.
“It will chronicle his rise and fall from fame, MTV in the early ’90s and how he turned his life around. He’s really excited,” an insider told Page Six.
The book is being shopped by Aevitas literary agent, Rick Richter, and promises to share “sordid and juicy details” about growing up in the shadows of comics like Richard Pryor and Robin Williams — who were regulars at his mom Mitzi’s Los Angeles comedy club, The Comedy Store — the insider said.
Shore is penning the book with Us Weekly deputy features editor and former People scribe Gillian Telling. Richter and Telling both confirmed our scoop.
“After I interviewed Pauly Shore for a feature in People in 2021, I was like, ‘Jesus, this guy has so many insanely rich stories, the world needs to hear them,'” Telling told us in a statement. “Who else grew up in a comedy club on the Sunset Strip in the ’70s, ’80s, and 90s, got super famous and then lost it all – and survived to tell the tales,” she added.
Shore became an overnight sensation when he joined MTV as a VJ in 1989. He appeared in movies like “Son in Law” and “Bio-Dome” throughout the ’90s, but fans tired of his act by the 2000s.
In 2020, Shore told us, “I was sad because at the end of the day, for 10 years of my career I was doing movies, and MTV, and albums… I was sad because I just loved making people happy.”
“It was hard for me to realize, how I’m not going to be starring in a movie every other year, like I was for a while,” he added.
Shore also plans to open up about his mom, who he watched slowly die of Parkinson’s disease in 2018, and his father, Sammy, who passed away one year later.
Additionally, he will open up about his friendships with comics including the late Bob Saget and Louie Anderson, we’re told.