With Pat O’Brien currently detained, The Insider needs a smarmy, blonde jock to fill in. What better replacement that Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath? He’s paid his dues hosting fourth-ranked entertainment newsmagazine Extra. He’s good at rhyming. He knows DJ Homicide would kick his ass if he called a coworker “fruit monkey.” I know what you’re thinking: what about Sugar Ray’s credibility? Turns out, even Mark knows he has none.
“The Man Who Would Be Tesh”
Entertainment Weekly, 3/25/05MARK MCGRATH: People have asked me, “Do you think you’re losing credibility and selling out?” It’s like, you have to have sold in to sell out. I don’t think anybody is ever gonne confuse Sugar Ray with Guided By Voices, you know?
Mark, it’s gonna be hard to make fun of you if you’re already doing it yourself. Anyway, you Insider people should at least consider giving McGrath the job. He doesn’t even know how to leave a dirty voicemail.
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Did anyone see McGrath on Leno last fall? It must of been Leno because they always keep the previous guest on the couch. Kirsten Dunst was next to him and was hillariously put-off by the douche bag. I couldn’t tell if she thought he was a creep or just a washed-up dickhead who is making his cash milling over the dirt of people like Dunst. Regardless, she shafted him repeatedly when he tried to bring her into the conversation about him joining the cast of Extra. It was poetry. Dear Mark, you are a douche.
so is Dunst.
I’m loving the Luke Perry forehead lines and molester mustache. Classy!
he looks like Derrick Zoolander in that photo
That moustache is breathtaking. He looks like Oates, of Hall & Oates.
I agree with you guys. That moustache is gorgeous. He really does look like a Pat O’Brien in training.
Mark also appeared as a guest judge on American Idol during the funny tryouts portion. His cheese factor is already running high.
Speaking of A.I., Mark is everything Constantine wants to be in life.
McGrath may not be into leaving dirty voice mail messages, but he is more than capable of alcohol-fueled inappropriatness. Lest we forget this gem from 1999:
SUGAR RAGE (Spin magazine, 1999)
Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath suffered what one eyewitness called “a rock-star breakdown” during an October show at the Manhattan club Shrine. The concert was part of a series sponsored by Marlboro, which purportedly paid the bad $100,000 a night to entertain the tobacco giant’s contest winners. A visibly intoxicated McGrath took the stage and promptly began to insult the crowd. “It got really ugly really fast”, according to a source to the venue. McGrath “dropped his pants and had his dick hanging out.” The handsome star then moaned, “My girlfriend broke up with me, and my dog got hit by a car.” After failing to elicit any sympathy from the crowd, McGrath tried a warmer approach by offering to service them all anally (probably not part of the band’s contract with Marlboro). Then McGrath “held out his middle and pointer fingers and asked, ‘Who wants to smell MADONNA?’” before walking out of the club, leaving his “very pissed-off” band onstage. Although Shrine and Marlboro would not officially comment, we head Sugar Ray’s promo contract has effectively been torn up, leaving the band $400,000 poorer. McGrath could not be reached for comment.
I’m impressed that McGrath even knows who Guided by Voices is. Bravo, dude!
Word is, McGrath likes to dole out the golden showers. Total perv.
Wow, there is a lot of hate for Mark McGrath. Seriously, I don’t think the guy is that much of a douche. Sugar Ray wrote pop songs, they were okay. Anyone who remembers celebrity episodes of VH1 Rock N Roll Jeopardy knows Mark McGrath is a god of musical knowledge, so the Guided by Voices reference shouldn’t be that surprising.
Beavis, is that Blue Steel or Magnum? I cant decide.
Cmon Nate, look at that picture. That moustache and the satin lapels. It’s awesomely lame.
Nate is certainly right about McGrath destroying everyone on Rock n’ Roll jeopardy. However, I’m not sure one can say McGrath write pop SONGS. He wrote one pop song… and then managed to squeeze 3 or 4 albums out of it. Nice money if you can get it.
Chris, I am leaning toward Magnum, the right brow needs to be arched up about a pubic hair more to resemble the notorious Blue Steel!
No words can describe that stache … … …
Sugar Ray’s 14:59 was the first cd i ever bought, is this some kind of omen that my taste in music is inevitably doomed to 4th rate-dom?
I’m not one to base credibility on one live show, but I caught Sugar Ray on some MTV-thing a couple years ago and Mark McGrath = Suck. His voice was all off-key and he was pseudo-schmoozing with that Vegas-style smarminess that he thinks we love him for . . .
I too saw Sugar Ray open up for the GooGoo Dolls, back in 1999, I believe. Man, did they suck live!! They had some big huge Somoan/Black guy actually mixing drinks in a tiki hut ON STAGE! I guess even the band had to be drunk to stand their own performance! They were awful and I was almost embarrased for them.
if you ask me mark mcgrath isnt tht bad and has got alot of bad hype i met him and he seems like a really lovely fun guy 2 be with and all of you need 2 get a life if all the best you have got 2 do is sit around and ditch mark mcgrath.
Just saw MM go after a fan after he heard someone shout Sugar Gay. He went up in the guys(looked under 18) face and made some threat all the while the guy was saying he didn’t say it. Oh yea he MM had a drink in his hand. One more person for him to apologize to once he gets into a twelve step.
MM is a jerk and he will get his on the way down.
Hey, what´s going on here?? That you don´t like Sugar Rays music is no problem….ha,ha..!
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But Mark is really a nice guy!! I met him and the band this year and they were sooooo normal and friendly guys…!!! In younger times Mark was a little bit crazy but now he became calmer..!!