John Lehr
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John C. Lehr (born November 25, 1965), an American film and television actor and comedian.
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[edit] Personal
Lehr was born on November 25, 1965 in Overland Park, Kansas. He is Jewish, having converted to Judaism in 2000.[1]
He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988.
In the late 80s while attending Northwestern he substitute taught at Kilmer Elementary School on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. He later received his teaching certificate and taught full time at Kilmer Elementary.
[edit] Stagework
In 2004, his one man shows THE LEHR CURSE: A SERIES OF COMEDIC LECTURES ran Off-Broadway. Lehr is an alumnus of Mee-Ow, an improv group at Northwestern University.
[edit] Sitcom career
Lehr stars in the TBS television series, 10 Items or Less, which premiered in November 2006. The second season premiered in January 2008.
Before 10 Items, he played Christina Applegate's brother in Jesse during its first season (1998).
[edit] Television commercials
[edit] Geico
Lehr played one of the Geico cavemen in a popular series of commercials for the auto insurance company Geico. Two of the other actors in the commercials were Jeffrey Daniel Phillips and Ben Weber.
Lehr appeared in the first ad, in which the caveman is a worker holding a boom mike on the set of a television commercial. He gets upset about the tenor of the commercial and its demeaning comments about caveman, and storms off the set.
In a later ad, he plays a caveman being counseled by a therapist played by Talia Shire.
[edit] Trivia
In September 2007, an interview started circulating around the internet between Lehr and co-star Nancy Hower, in which Lehr appears to start choking. Hower assumes this is one of his improvisational jokes but he quickly falls to the ground as a crew member begins the Heimlich maneuver.
Lehr admitted in a subsequent interview on The Insider which aired on September 25, 2007, that the entire event was staged.
He loves the band The Killers and has said in interviews that he has a slight crush on lead singer Brandon Flowers.
He appears in the Christina Applegate movie The Sweetest Thing as a man driving in a golf cart on a driving range being hit by balls he is credited as "Ralph".
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Bloom, Nate (2006-11-24). "Celebrity Jews". The Jewish News Weekly of Northern California.
John is married to Jennifer Lehr, author of the memoir ILL-EQUIPPED FOR A LIFE OF SEX that chronicles the early part of their relationship.
