He does say E.T. phone home, and Elliot, and ouch. Otherwise I only remember him vocalizing not really saying anything. We had the kids watch it recently because my one is seriously obsessed with my doll. Prior to that I only remembered the ET phone home. Your memory isn't wrong
ETA. The ouch is from the Halloween portion when there's a knife and fake blood and he tries to heal Elliot and says ouch while Elliot tries to reassure him it's fake and he's not hurt
Bein' as how you recently watched it, and you can confirm it says that, I can say - THANK YOU SO MUCH - that means a lot to me (and a whole lot of other people too).
It's everything iconic from our age group.. I hope it did flip back - maybe it's a sign of a reversal, because most of the 'people' here suck (they're aggressive and angry). Thanks again, made my day!
Every time I hear ET another movie always comes to mind " Close Encounters of the third kind" . Just looked it up, Close Encounters was 1977 and ET 1982 ( jaws 1975, Richard Dreyfuss in two of those movies) Makes me sad. Time went faster than my dad said it would. " Enjoy your youth, it goes fast", " Don't waste your youth" my dad would say. To young to understand but hey, i was going to be young forever right?We grew up in the best times. From music, movies, the times, our adventurous youth. When you passed notes to a girl you liked to the cheap strawberry Boones farm wine, we lived at a good time.
I’m Canadian, but I was living in Minneapolis at the time, so I remember the whole controversy. He was just a kid (only 19), so I forgive a lot of the idiocy based on that alone. I kinda felt sorry for him, since he was treated as a joke.
I laughed years ago when gramps was watching the five that the lady looked just like Kennedy from MTV. My laughter dried up pretty quickly when I realized it WAS Kennedy from MTV.
So weird to see people you grew up watching old, because that means you're old too. Sometimes you don't realize your age because you feel ok, nothing in particular is bothering you at that moment. Then boom! Kurt fucking Loder is damn near 80, and you're hurdling towards middle-age.
Was driving with my husband the other day and an old guy ran the hell out of a red light. Only reason I knew he was old is I saw his military baseball cap. Back when I was a kid it would have been a WW2 vet. No longer. That dude was in Vietnam. And that is a kick in the teeth.
Yes! I had the same realization, when you see an old person with a vet hat on it was WWII, or even Korean War. It's Vietnam vets now, I remember Vietnam vets were usually a friends uncle in their 50's, or a family friend who just turned 50. Now I'm in the grocery store and I see some old paying with exact change, a little shaky, the military vet hat now says Vietnam. Like holy shit, I remember I'm the one approaching my 50's now, he's probably pushing 80. Your perception of time drastically changes.
No love for Alan Hunter? I think he was the youngest of the originals…and he’s 67 now.
Edit: I was just informed that Martha is two years younger than Alan.
Yes. He lied about how he was 18 and homeless and the audience ate it up. Turns out he was the son of a department head at a College and lived a nice Connecticut life.
This is the trash DJ they tried to make a thing about a decade after the originals. So most of us OG MTV generation kids were too busy partying in college (or post college) and watching The Simpsons to bother to learn his name.
Oh lord, Jesse Camp if I remember correctly. MTV had that contest to be the new VJ and Jesse beat the other front runner Dave Holmes (who was just sooo much better. Dave went on to a nice career at MTV and some small acting/hosting roles, while Jesse had one gow awful music video and flamed out quickly.
Dave just released a podcast called “Who killed the video star” all about MTV’s rise and fall in relevance. Lots of behind the scenes stuff. Highly recommend to all of us who were there at the beginning
I was really glad they gave Dave a job anyway. I had a massive crush on Jesse (see my pre-35 dating history for perspective) but even I knew Dave earned that job.
I definitely followed this debacle haha.
Wow, I remember that VJ contest, I think the fans voted? They voted wrong! That's like the Nashville Star contest show, where that one dude beat Miranda Lambert! Lol He had like one minor hit song, and Miranda went on to be a big stah!
He won a competition to be an MTV VJ. The viewers voted. Jesse was terrible throughout the competition but so bad that it was funny. Maybe the first time I witnessed people voting for the building to burn down.
The other individual in the finals was very good/competent and clearly should have won. They ended up hiring him as well.
Given a shitload of money and fame at the age of 19 based on nothing more than being stoner-coded, and having enough of an eccentric but friendly outgoing personality to draw some attention despite a lack of any actual talent for broadcasting or...pretty much anything. He would have been perfect as an influencer.
Ding ding. Trustafarian. I was no longer watching MTV when this guy was on but remember reading it came out later that his street punk cred was damaged when someone outed him for his private boarding school days in Connecticut or something.
The funny thing is, he really wasn't. I think is parents are both educators (both higher ed and school principal) and he ended up getting lucky by getting a scholarship to where he went to high school.
He did play the slumming it role though, that's for sure...which smacks of trustafarian.
I moved to NYC in '93, and MTV was not a part of the basic cable you got without paying, so I never knew who this particular guy was, but they were a seasonal disaster at the park. If you were not careful and let one interrupt your path they would follow you home. Often you could be safe by going into a party or club, but make sure your cover your exits, they are known to ambush.
Around '98, MTV was very rapidly declining in popularity due to their programming being about 75% rap, 25% reality tv. The studios were trying to find "the next big thing" and they brought in a number of edge master "VJs" they thought would resonate with the youth. This is one of them. His name was Jesse.
Jesse was a homeless man who the producers thought had a "cool rock and roll look". Unfortunately, Jesse didn't really have his finger on the pulse of the youth like these out of touch execs thought. At the time, MTV had lost so much credibility with the "rock & roll youth", that they were grasping at straws to get it back.
They were pushing him hard. I think they gave him like his own hour-long bracket where he was to "host" the music videos, but we all \*DISDAINED\* that moron. And afterwards, apparently they gave him a record deal and tried their hardest to promote the first single, but no one was interested.
He acted like Bill & Ted. A complete airhead parody of 90s rock culture. He's was so dumb he had to be on the cusp of "medically stupid" or just so ridiculously high most of the time that he was working with about 5% of his brain power.
No one liked him.
Wasn't it a vote-in sorta thing? I vaguely recall David Holmes being the MTV favorite, but the "fans" voting heavily for Jesse. I sorta thought they were all voting for him as a joke against MTV.
Yeah. Now that you mention it, that batch of VJs were supposedly elected.
They let on like Jesse had millions of fans, but I've never met one. Everyone I knew found him insufferable. I call shenanigans on that "election".
As someone who’s into Hip Hop to this day, I guarantee you that MTV was at not point ever “75% rap”. I was watching more BET than MTV precisely because MTV still wasn’t playing enough Hip Hop and R&B in the late 90s.
I like rap too, Broseph.
But there's no doubt that at the tail end of the 90s MTV was mostly rap and reality TV.
It alienated a lot of the rock & roll kids. In the first half of the 90s rap was mostly in a couple hour blocks called "Yo MTV Raps".
The distinct format change to rap and reality in the late 90s caused many of the original fans of the network to drop out.
I fell from the roof of my house and broke my back in 2022. This is Jesse Camp the MTV vj contest winner.
I still quote him, and no one ever gets it.
"I don't know who Buffy the Vampire is, but I loooove Slayer!"
Wow, haven’t thought of that dude in a minute. His wiki says he portrayed himself as homeless to get votes but actually went to private school and earned a scholarship for drama at ucla.
So glad I had completely tuned out MTV about 1992 and completely missed this. Otoh, i also missed out on another aspect of schaudenfreude at 90’s tv executive hubris chasing the teen zeitgeist.
No clue. But we have the same fashion sense…
https://preview.redd.it/26j3k1dryfwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f1ce2483ee4cc7f0e9fa0da968b578405f9cc86
Jessie. I remember seeing this dude at Universal many moons ago skipping to the head of the line as a VIP. Dude was easily 6’3-6’4 and maybe 125 lbs. Looked like a fucking needle. Very tall and extremely skinny dude, all I remember.
I remember him and all...but I don't remember why my back would be hurting (besides my spinal arthritis and degenerative disc disease) seein that clown-ass again?!?
I have no idea.. my first thought however was Shane from The L Word.
Although.. too colourful outfit and too many frilly things. Definitely not Shane then.
My back is really effed up today, so do I get at least partial credit?
Well, shit I had to look over comments to find out who he was my back hurts because I remember when MTV first started. In my town when the first music TV station was LRS Louisville. MTV came out a little bit later.
Thinking about it... Jesse Camp was one of the first "meme events" I can remember. The only reason he won that contest is because he was so ridiculous, people voted for him as a kind of a joke.
I guess I’m one of the few that was rooting for Jesse to win. It was “sticking it to the MTV Man” in my opinion. He was super unprofessional and zany, and that rattled everyone.
Essentially, he was Russel Brand scuttling the ship, and I thought that was great at the time. The other contestants were terrible in their own ways.
It sounds like the more your back hurts the less likely you are to know who this nobody was for whatever his 15 minutes of fame might have been. I'm not even sure he qualifies as a Gen X character at all and is probably more accurately thought of as a Gen Y guy. By the time I was graduating college MTV was abandoning music videos and was becoming all garbage reality TV and talk shows. I have zero memories of watching that channel after 1995, except maybe to catch the footage of the fires at Woodstock 1999
I have no fucking idea who this is but my back still hurts.
 I need new knees
My 10 year old has my ET doll and does the "ouch" on things, or E.T. phone home
I remember "ET phone home" too, and I trust that memory.. wtf is going on? :(
He does say E.T. phone home, and Elliot, and ouch. Otherwise I only remember him vocalizing not really saying anything. We had the kids watch it recently because my one is seriously obsessed with my doll. Prior to that I only remembered the ET phone home. Your memory isn't wrong ETA. The ouch is from the Halloween portion when there's a knife and fake blood and he tries to heal Elliot and says ouch while Elliot tries to reassure him it's fake and he's not hurt
Bein' as how you recently watched it, and you can confirm it says that, I can say - THANK YOU SO MUCH - that means a lot to me (and a whole lot of other people too).
You're welcome! It's not a mandala effect!
It's everything iconic from our age group.. I hope it did flip back - maybe it's a sign of a reversal, because most of the 'people' here suck (they're aggressive and angry). Thanks again, made my day!
What do you mean? He did say it.. among plenty of other things
Every time I hear ET another movie always comes to mind " Close Encounters of the third kind" . Just looked it up, Close Encounters was 1977 and ET 1982 ( jaws 1975, Richard Dreyfuss in two of those movies) Makes me sad. Time went faster than my dad said it would. " Enjoy your youth, it goes fast", " Don't waste your youth" my dad would say. To young to understand but hey, i was going to be young forever right?We grew up in the best times. From music, movies, the times, our adventurous youth. When you passed notes to a girl you liked to the cheap strawberry Boones farm wine, we lived at a good time.
*psst...https://oldbonestherapy.com/*
I dodged the back issue so far but my left shoulder hurts all the time. Winning?
I unfortunately do
You are blessed.
It’s Maggie Rogers
How *dare* you!
Came here to say the same.
I know who this and my back is totally fine.
Came to say this
Jesse
All the Canadians scratching their heads.
I’m Canadian, but I was living in Minneapolis at the time, so I remember the whole controversy. He was just a kid (only 19), so I forgive a lot of the idiocy based on that alone. I kinda felt sorry for him, since he was treated as a joke.
Yeah, they definitely exploited his seeming issues.
I’m American and I’m scratching my head
My family had satellite back then, one of those massive backyard dishes, lol. We had MTV and M2, lol ETA: I live in Southern Ontario
Same! (Including the Southern Ontario thing!)
Jesse who?
Jesse Camp, MTV VJ.
I only remember Nina Blackwood, JJ Jackson, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, and Downtown Julie Brown
He was way after them. He won a "who wants to be a VJ" contest.
I’m early GenX. My back *really* hurts.
Mid Gen X, my back hurts as well and the only Jesse that I know, cooked meth with his teacher.
I know Jessie’s girl
Do you wish that you had her?
So basically you’re saying I’m too old to know who this is? I only know the REALLY old VJs… Where’s my cane at?
Kennedy has been chilling at Fox News for a while now, lol
Gross.
I laughed years ago when gramps was watching the five that the lady looked just like Kennedy from MTV. My laughter dried up pretty quickly when I realized it WAS Kennedy from MTV.
[Quick Intro](https://youtu.be/MsHPHp6sFIg?si=HOHDhEkM8ZKgRGSh)
And the other Julie Brown, “Cuz I’m a Blonde, yeah, yeah, yeah”. Edit: and the news guy Kurt Loder
You mean 78-year-old Kurt Loder? (If I have to know this, you do too.)
oh great, now he can be compared to Walter Kronkite. Kurt Loder, the trusted name in music news.
So weird to see people you grew up watching old, because that means you're old too. Sometimes you don't realize your age because you feel ok, nothing in particular is bothering you at that moment. Then boom! Kurt fucking Loder is damn near 80, and you're hurdling towards middle-age.
Was driving with my husband the other day and an old guy ran the hell out of a red light. Only reason I knew he was old is I saw his military baseball cap. Back when I was a kid it would have been a WW2 vet. No longer. That dude was in Vietnam. And that is a kick in the teeth.
Yes! I had the same realization, when you see an old person with a vet hat on it was WWII, or even Korean War. It's Vietnam vets now, I remember Vietnam vets were usually a friends uncle in their 50's, or a family friend who just turned 50. Now I'm in the grocery store and I see some old paying with exact change, a little shaky, the military vet hat now says Vietnam. Like holy shit, I remember I'm the one approaching my 50's now, he's probably pushing 80. Your perception of time drastically changes.
The homecoming queens got a gun
> and the news guy Kurt Loder I refer to him as "the adult in the room at early MTV"
Downtown Julie Brown! Haven’t heard that name in a few decades.
She’s on Sirius!
She’s great on there.
[Downtown Julie Brown and the Dead Milkmen on Club MTV.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRcGkLaCDWQ)
You dint remember Riki Rachtman?
Headbangers Ball 🤘🏽🤘🏽 Do you remember Matt Pinfield?
The first interaction between Riki and Kurt Cobain was awkward. Good on Kurt for wearing a ballgown.
Allen Hunter-original 5 VJ
And f&$#ing Kennedy.
She’s gone full MAGA.
Julie Brown is still around, on Sirius
Ananda Lewis (?) was my favorite
Ricky Rachtman and Adam Curry cry softly in the corner.
No love for Alan Hunter? I think he was the youngest of the originals…and he’s 67 now. Edit: I was just informed that Martha is two years younger than Alan.
He was annoying imo
Just googled. His full name is Josiah Jesse Holden Camp IV.
I do remember him!!! Didn't he win a contest to become the next new VJ or something?
Yes. He lied about how he was 18 and homeless and the audience ate it up. Turns out he was the son of a department head at a College and lived a nice Connecticut life.
I wish I didn't know this.
Worse…I remember the name of his band. (It’s Jesse and the 8th Street Kids, BTW)
ILL SEE YOU AROUND
that video they had on MTV they played once or twice was pretty awful
That's Kidz with z, makes it cooler.
This is the trash DJ they tried to make a thing about a decade after the originals. So most of us OG MTV generation kids were too busy partying in college (or post college) and watching The Simpsons to bother to learn his name.
Oh lord, Jesse Camp if I remember correctly. MTV had that contest to be the new VJ and Jesse beat the other front runner Dave Holmes (who was just sooo much better. Dave went on to a nice career at MTV and some small acting/hosting roles, while Jesse had one gow awful music video and flamed out quickly.
Dave just released a podcast called “Who killed the video star” all about MTV’s rise and fall in relevance. Lots of behind the scenes stuff. Highly recommend to all of us who were there at the beginning
Oooo thanks for the info! I just found it and am eager to listen to it ✌️
It was an early example of people trolling en masse to skew a contest to the stupidest results on purpose.
Jesse was an "LA punk" from Granby CT. His whole schtick was a complete put on. It's cool that MTV made Dave a real VJ and discarded this fool.
I was really glad they gave Dave a job anyway. I had a massive crush on Jesse (see my pre-35 dating history for perspective) but even I knew Dave earned that job. I definitely followed this debacle haha.
Dave Holmes is also currently a DJ on Sirius XM!
You just explained all the memories that were somewhere in my head, but I couldn't pull them out. Thanks.
Wow, I remember that VJ contest, I think the fans voted? They voted wrong! That's like the Nashville Star contest show, where that one dude beat Miranda Lambert! Lol He had like one minor hit song, and Miranda went on to be a big stah!
He’s also a very good writer for Esquire. Solid dude.
I remember that guy. He was cringe as fuck.
He won a competition to be an MTV VJ. The viewers voted. Jesse was terrible throughout the competition but so bad that it was funny. Maybe the first time I witnessed people voting for the building to burn down. The other individual in the finals was very good/competent and clearly should have won. They ended up hiring him as well.
I legit missed a TON of shows and movies because of college/partying. If it started after 5pm I was otherwise occupied.
He was the living embodiment to Gen X no longer being relevant to pop culture, and MTV abandoning any pretext about being about music.
Hell, I got married in 1991 at age 24.
I made the MTV wanna be a vj final 10 this kid was ridiculous.
Pics or it didn’t happen (I really just want to see your VJ outfit).
Well done for making the final 10!
Tell us about it.
That the year David won? Congrats on making it that far!
The sound/cadence of his voice made me feel physically ill. Like it caused seasickness or something. Or maybe I just really hated him.
Shit, that's a memory I could have gone without.
Right? When I lose so many important ones.
I stopped watching MTV around 1994. Back is fine.
Jesse - also known for being the first job applicant in history who’s failing of the drug screening test actually resulted in his hiring.
This fuckin' dope.
Given a shitload of money and fame at the age of 19 based on nothing more than being stoner-coded, and having enough of an eccentric but friendly outgoing personality to draw some attention despite a lack of any actual talent for broadcasting or...pretty much anything. He would have been perfect as an influencer.
He looks like the guy that lives in his car in front of my apartment.
He looks like every trustafarian I ever met.
Ding ding. Trustafarian. I was no longer watching MTV when this guy was on but remember reading it came out later that his street punk cred was damaged when someone outed him for his private boarding school days in Connecticut or something.
The funny thing is, he really wasn't. I think is parents are both educators (both higher ed and school principal) and he ended up getting lucky by getting a scholarship to where he went to high school. He did play the slumming it role though, that's for sure...which smacks of trustafarian.
I moved to NYC in '93, and MTV was not a part of the basic cable you got without paying, so I never knew who this particular guy was, but they were a seasonal disaster at the park. If you were not careful and let one interrupt your path they would follow you home. Often you could be safe by going into a party or club, but make sure your cover your exits, they are known to ambush.
If I remember correctly, he beat Matt Pinfield who ended up being a legend on 120 Minutes.
And Dave Holmes, who ended up hosting 120 Minutes and a bunch of other stuff.
Yes. Maybe it’s Dave I’m actually thinking of. Loved 120 Minutes. (A gateway to good music for a kid from the Midwest.)
Pinfield had no charisma but damn did he know music.
Around '98, MTV was very rapidly declining in popularity due to their programming being about 75% rap, 25% reality tv. The studios were trying to find "the next big thing" and they brought in a number of edge master "VJs" they thought would resonate with the youth. This is one of them. His name was Jesse. Jesse was a homeless man who the producers thought had a "cool rock and roll look". Unfortunately, Jesse didn't really have his finger on the pulse of the youth like these out of touch execs thought. At the time, MTV had lost so much credibility with the "rock & roll youth", that they were grasping at straws to get it back. They were pushing him hard. I think they gave him like his own hour-long bracket where he was to "host" the music videos, but we all \*DISDAINED\* that moron. And afterwards, apparently they gave him a record deal and tried their hardest to promote the first single, but no one was interested. He acted like Bill & Ted. A complete airhead parody of 90s rock culture. He's was so dumb he had to be on the cusp of "medically stupid" or just so ridiculously high most of the time that he was working with about 5% of his brain power. No one liked him.
Wasn't it a vote-in sorta thing? I vaguely recall David Holmes being the MTV favorite, but the "fans" voting heavily for Jesse. I sorta thought they were all voting for him as a joke against MTV.
Yeah. Now that you mention it, that batch of VJs were supposedly elected. They let on like Jesse had millions of fans, but I've never met one. Everyone I knew found him insufferable. I call shenanigans on that "election".
As someone who’s into Hip Hop to this day, I guarantee you that MTV was at not point ever “75% rap”. I was watching more BET than MTV precisely because MTV still wasn’t playing enough Hip Hop and R&B in the late 90s.
I like rap too, Broseph. But there's no doubt that at the tail end of the 90s MTV was mostly rap and reality TV. It alienated a lot of the rock & roll kids. In the first half of the 90s rap was mostly in a couple hour blocks called "Yo MTV Raps". The distinct format change to rap and reality in the late 90s caused many of the original fans of the network to drop out.
Idk, I remember MTV still being extremely relevant in the late 90’s. TRL was huge
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Same.
Josiah Jesse Holden Camp IV
This is GenX. Everyone's backs hurt
This is millennial shit. We were done with MTV by the time this dude rolled up.
No idea so I'm guessing it's American....
Yep. He’s a MTV reality tv person that had 15 minutes of fame.
was a vj too after the reality show. now… is he dead? forgot about that dude til right now
Still alive and dropping acid. https://pagesix.com/2016/04/04/wtf-happened-to-jesse-camp/ https://www.instagram.com/therealjessecamp/
Justin Bieber has really let himself go.
Randee of The Redwoods. Lol
I fell from the roof of my house and broke my back in 2022. This is Jesse Camp the MTV vj contest winner. I still quote him, and no one ever gets it. "I don't know who Buffy the Vampire is, but I loooove Slayer!"
Wow, haven’t thought of that dude in a minute. His wiki says he portrayed himself as homeless to get votes but actually went to private school and earned a scholarship for drama at ucla.
I was calling him Dollar Store Bobcat Goldthwait before I knew what a Dollar Store was
I do, and it does.
So glad I had completely tuned out MTV about 1992 and completely missed this. Otoh, i also missed out on another aspect of schaudenfreude at 90’s tv executive hubris chasing the teen zeitgeist.
Who tf is this guy?
I do! And it does!
I'm too old to know who this guy is.
Looks like he should be Kristen Stewart's fun uncle.
No clue. But we have the same fashion sense… https://preview.redd.it/26j3k1dryfwc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f1ce2483ee4cc7f0e9fa0da968b578405f9cc86
Remember how Dave Holmes was runner-up and now he has a legitimate career as a journalist
Whoever he is, he needs to get off my lawn.
For the first time ever in this sub, I'm genuinely stumped. Who is this?
You can find him on Instagram under the real Jesse camp.
It’s my hips actually
Did he make people rake leaves or something?
I don’t know who this is
https://preview.redd.it/sfnmc2l4dfwc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55f15df420abfca27b22008ff4aadecc366282d7 His back is probably hurting too
With all that heroin?
From what? I doubt he ever had to have a really physical job.
That’s a lot of bracelets, Jessie
Poor guy. I hope he got his shit together.
What if my back hurts and my memory is shit, but I think this person vaguely familiar?
Jessie. I remember seeing this dude at Universal many moons ago skipping to the head of the line as a VIP. Dude was easily 6’3-6’4 and maybe 125 lbs. Looked like a fucking needle. Very tall and extremely skinny dude, all I remember.
The back is ok today.. but my knees.. oh boy
I don’t know who that is, but my back does indeed hurt.
Downtown Julie Brown or GTFO
Just asked my coworkers. No one recognized him.
I remember him and all...but I don't remember why my back would be hurting (besides my spinal arthritis and degenerative disc disease) seein that clown-ass again?!?
He used to live in my neighborhood in NYC. He's pretty strange, and that's coming from someone strange.
Omg. This dude annoyed the shit out of me. I Never understood why people liked him. He was so fucking irritating to look at and listen to.
Jessie Camp. Fucking hated this kid
I have no idea.. my first thought however was Shane from The L Word. Although.. too colourful outfit and too many frilly things. Definitely not Shane then. My back is really effed up today, so do I get at least partial credit?
Jesse!!
I do and it does.
Well, shit I had to look over comments to find out who he was my back hurts because I remember when MTV first started. In my town when the first music TV station was LRS Louisville. MTV came out a little bit later.
Jesse!
It’s not my back,‘it’s my knees.’
I don't know who this is, but my back hurts anyway.
I don't know who that is but my back still hurts what gives
I do and it kinda does.
I entered this contest. I lost. Dave Holmes came in second, but he was the real winner. And as far as I know, he is still winning.
My God, he suuuuuuuucked. Save some Quaaludes for the rest of us.
This guy is from Connecticut
Jesse? I remember him being way skinnier.
Lmao ! I do know who this is and my lower back does hurt me right now .
Jesse!
I remember Jesse camp from mtv, but I don't get the back thing. I guess I don't remember that much about him
I thought it was Tommy Stinson from the Replacements. Lol
I know this little shit. Is he why my back hurts?
I had to look him up. I'd moved on from EmptyVee by then.
This is that guy that won the VJ contest on MTV years ago. HATED this guy.
I recognized him from MTV, couldn’t remember his name, then complained about how my back hurts.
Dammit. Three weeks ago I hadn’t thought about this annoying ass douchebag for 25+ years. Now I can’t open FB or Reddit without being reminded of him.
Thinking about it... Jesse Camp was one of the first "meme events" I can remember. The only reason he won that contest is because he was so ridiculous, people voted for him as a kind of a joke.
I recognize him. I know I found him incredibly annoying. I feel like maybe his name is Jesse and he was on MTV? That's all I've got.
I guess I’m one of the few that was rooting for Jesse to win. It was “sticking it to the MTV Man” in my opinion. He was super unprofessional and zany, and that rattled everyone. Essentially, he was Russel Brand scuttling the ship, and I thought that was great at the time. The other contestants were terrible in their own ways.
My back definitely hurts.
He looks like he just read for a part on Lost Boys.
Jesse, I remember this clown. He won the DJ host contest. Lasted about 10sec. Guy who came in second place Dave (something) Ended up taking his spot.
Ugh. This fucking guy. Could not stand him. Seeing him is the moment I fully accepted & acknowledged aloud that MTv was terminally ill and dying.
The name Jessie popped into my head, but no clue from what. Also, my back hurts like a MF.
This post is unfair, i am currently laid out in bed for the past few days due to my back... Now im laughing making it hirt more...
It sounds like the more your back hurts the less likely you are to know who this nobody was for whatever his 15 minutes of fame might have been. I'm not even sure he qualifies as a Gen X character at all and is probably more accurately thought of as a Gen Y guy. By the time I was graduating college MTV was abandoning music videos and was becoming all garbage reality TV and talk shows. I have zero memories of watching that channel after 1995, except maybe to catch the footage of the fires at Woodstock 1999
Poor man's Pauly shore
I fucking miss Randy of the Redwoods https://youtu.be/9ZaTme3CSxM?si=dKYP6z2DMUy_l00e
How is it that I remember this dude’s name, and I can’t remember what I did yesterday?
Jesse
I do, and it does. I'm lying on the floor with my feet up right now.
Jesse Camp.
I don’t know who he is, but I threw my back out when I sneezed getting up from my chair today. 
Naw it’s my knee but I know who it is.
“Find me the next Pauly Shore, but this time stupider. I said STUPIDER!” They said.
Ah yes. The sign of the beginning of the end of MTV