Early life

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.

Career

Stand-up career

Inspired by his parents' work in comedy and show business, a 17-year-old Shore made his stand-up debut at the Alley Cat Bistro in Culver City. "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."

MTV

Shore's big break came as an on-air MTV VJ, a position he held from 1989 to 1994. At the height of his MTV fame, Shore had his own show, Totally Pauly, serving as a host, most memorably on MTV'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 Man 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 Bio-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 "N 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 MTV pilot called The Shores and various projects with such as Funny or Die.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Gross
1988	For Keeps	Retro	$17.5 million
	18 Again!	Barrett	$2.6 million
1989	Rock & Read	Host
	Lost Angels	Kid #3	$1.2 million
	Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge	Buzz
1990	Wedding Band	Nicky
1992	Time Out: The Truth About HIV, AIDS, and You	Himself
	Encino Man	Stanley "Stoney" Brown	$40.6 million
	Class Act	Julian Thomas	$13.3 million
1993	Son in Law	Crawl	$36.4 million
1994	In the Army Now	Bones Conway	$28.8 million
1995	A Goofy Movie	Robert "Bobby" Zimmeruski	$35.3 million
	Jury Duty	Thomas B. "Tommy" Collins	$17 million
1996	Bio-Dome	Bud Macintosh	$13.4 million
	Playboy: The Best of Jenny McCarthy	Himself
1997	The Curse of Inferno	Chuck Betts
	Playboy: Jenny McCarthy, the Playboy Years	Himself
	Casper: A Spirited Beginning	Snivel (voice)
1998	Junket Whore	Himself
	Casper Meets Wendy	The Oracle
1999	King of the Hill	MTV DJ
2000	An Extremely Goofy Movie	Robert "Bobby" Zimmeruski
	Red Letters	Anthony Griglio
	The Princess and the Barrio Boy	Wesley
	The Bogus Witch Project	Himself
2001	The Wash	Man in Trunk	$10.2 million
2002	Rebel Fish	Himself/DVD Host
2003	Pauly Shore Is Dead	Himself/Bucky's Cousin
2005	My Big Fat Independent Movie	Himself
2007	Natural Born Komics	Himself
2009	Opposite Day	Robert Benson
2010	Pauly Shore's 'Adopted'	Himself
	Stonerville	Rod Hardbone
2011	Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star	AFA emcee
2012	Whiskey Business	Nicky Ferelli

[ Source: Wikipedia ]