John Lehr Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

John C. Lehr (born November 25, 1965), an American film and television actor and comedian. Lehr was born on November 25, 1965 in Overland Park, Kansas. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988. 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. Lehr converted to Judaism in 2000. In September 2007, an interview started circulating around the internet between Lehr and Nancy Hower, in which Lehr appears to start choking. Hower... MORE

John C. Lehr (born November 25, 1965), an American film and television actor and comedian. Lehr was born on November 25, 1965 in Overland Park, Kansas. He graduated from Northwestern University in 1988. 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. Lehr converted to Judaism in 2000. In September 2007, an interview started circulating around the internet between Lehr and 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. A subsequent video (also presumably staged) was released in the same style, in which Lehr and Hower are recording an apology to those offended by their choking hoax. In the course of apologizing, Lehr again pretends to choke, but this time no one around him shows any concern and he quickly stops pretending. Just then, a large piece of equipment falls LESS