Unsuccessful Celebrity Comebacks

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Like when Vanilla Ice tried to transition into more hardcore rap, then nu metal.

Good thing be settled on embracing his punchline status and getting involved in real estate. But not every celeb can be so lucky.

[Welfare Willis]

Dec 9, 2019 11:59:55 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Like when Vanilla Ice tried to transition into more hardcore rap, then nu metal.

Good thing be settled on embracing his punchline status and getting involved in real estate. But not every celeb can be so lucky.

I assume Meg Ryan in the film, In the Cut. The problem being Meg Ryan was defined in many ways by "When Harry met Sally".

[metylerca]

I think CM Punk's comb back is adequate at best. But it was the style at the time.

Mike Patton's comb back though?


Beautiful.

[arrogantmodel]

Dec 9, 2019 12:20:44 GMT -5 Welfare Willis said:

Dec 9, 2019 11:59:55 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Like when Vanilla Ice tried to transition into more hardcore rap, then nu metal.

Good thing be settled on embracing his punchline status and getting involved in real estate. But not every celeb can be so lucky.

I assume Meg Ryan in the film, In the Cut. The problem being Meg Ryan was defined in many ways by "When Harry met Sally".

And Sleepless in Seattle.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Ja Rule

My guy has done anything and everything to make his name big again since 50 essentially chased him out the rap game and he has fallen on his ass countless times. Fyre Festival and his name being attached to that mess just takes the cake 

[lucas_lee]

Mickey Rourke, right after the Wrestler and Ironman 2 he kinda went back into obscurity and being an overall d-bag

[Paul]

Remember when MC Hammer went Gangasta?

[Johnny B. Decent]

Dec 9, 2019 14:04:58 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Ja Rule

My guy has done anything and everything to make his name big again since 50 essentially chased him out the rap game and he has fallen on his ass countless times. Fyre Festival and his name being attached to that mess just takes the cake 

This would have never happened to Ja'Crispy.

[Push R Truth]

I think Chevy Chase has tried to come back a couple times. It's like he's gone just long enough that people forget why he left... then he shows up just long enough for people to remember he's a crazy asshole.

[ERON]

ALF attempting to come back, not in pog form, but as a talk show host.

[Cela]

Remember when Gwyneth Paltrow tried to be a country singer?

[G✇JI☈A]

Dec 9, 2019 14:10:49 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Mickey Rourke, right after the Wrestler and Ironman 2 he kinda went back into obscurity and being an overall d-bag

Funfact: Mickey was considered for a role in “The Irishman” (I think in the role played by Harvey Keitel), but at some point in his career he burnt a bridge with Robert DeNiro so Bobby D refused to work with him.

[Welfare Willis]

Dec 9, 2019 19:23:01 GMT -5 G✇JI☈A said:

Dec 9, 2019 14:10:49 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Mickey Rourke, right after the Wrestler and Ironman 2 he kinda went back into obscurity and being an overall d-bag

Funfact: Mickey was considered for a role in “The Irishman” (I think in the role played by Harvey Keitel), but at some point in his career he burnt a bridge with Robert DeNiro so Bobby D refused to work with him.

They worked on Angel Heart together. I wondered if something happened on the set.


EDIT: Well, a quick google search later:

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Rourke’s Non è la D’Urso interview had a trashy United Nations feel to it. As the host asked questions in Italian, Rourke answered (often profanely) in English as a translator attempted to translate his comments to the audience in Italian.

When the subjects of De Niro and The Irishman came up, Rourke really went for broke. He mentioned how difficult it had been to work with De Niro on Angel Heart (1987). To illustrate his point, Rourke spoke of De Niro shutting down communication immediately after meeting for the first time.

“He said, ‘I think it’s better if we don’t talk — because of our characters,'” Rourke recalled. Later, while working on a scene, Rourke said De Niro asked that he never touch him while they worked. (Rourke said director Alan Parker delivered the message from De Niro.)

When his shot at a part in The Irishman fell through, Rourke said it was De Niro’s doing. “He doesn’t forget what happened 20 years ago,” Rourke told Non è la D’Urso. “They have a saying: ‘I took him to school.’ Before, no other actor had taken him to school.”

And another bit from an avclub article:
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Now, that’s not the kind of thing anyone says to another person without a reason, and Uproxx pulled up an ABC News story from 2008 that mentions Rourke being very difficult to work with on the set of Angel Heart specifically. Director Alan Parker even referred to the shoot at the time as a “nightmare” and said Rourke is “very dangerous on the set because you never know what he is going to do.” It shouldn’t be news to anyone that Rourke has a reputation for being difficult to work with, but apparently De Niro missed the whole redemptive arc he had back around the time of that ABC story when The Wrestler was coming out. Or maybe this is just destined to be one of those feuds that simmers forever. Either way, we won’t get to see a young Mickey Rourke (who talks and acts like modern Mickey Rourke) brought to life through the powers of The Irishman’s CG magic now, and that’s the real tragedy here.

[Instant Classic]

Not a celebrity but any childhood show that gets rebooted.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Dec 9, 2019 15:29:59 GMT -5 Johnny B. Decent said:

Dec 9, 2019 14:04:58 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

Ja Rule

My guy has done anything and everything to make his name big again since 50 essentially chased him out the rap game and he has fallen on his ass countless times. Fyre Festival and his name being attached to that mess just takes the cake 

This would have never happened to Ja'Crispy.

He’s hard. That thigh tattoo proves it.

[BorneAgain]

OJ Simpson made an attempt at being a criminal investigator in looking the real killers of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, and at the risk of being rude, I was not impressed at his efforts.

[lucas_lee]

Dec 9, 2019 19:23:01 GMT -5 G✇JI☈A said:

Dec 9, 2019 14:10:49 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Mickey Rourke, right after the Wrestler and Ironman 2 he kinda went back into obscurity and being an overall d-bag

Funfact: Mickey was considered for a role in “The Irishman” (I think in the role played by Harvey Keitel), but at some point in his career he burnt a bridge with Robert DeNiro so Bobby D refused to work with him.

I hear thats untrue and Rourke was making it up. According to Scorsese its not true

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

Nick Cannon’s currently trying to bring himself back as a murder threatening rapper.

[Ben Wyatt]

Dec 9, 2019 19:26:32 GMT -5 Instant Classic said:

Not a celebrity but any childhood show that gets rebooted.

Fuller House actually did alright

[James Fabiano]

Dec 9, 2019 20:15:57 GMT -5 BorneAgain said:

OJ Simpson made an attempt at being a criminal investigator in looking the real killers of Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman, and at the risk of being rude, I was not impressed at his efforts.

Yeah doing it by writing a book about how you would have done it is not the best idea.