Conservative Commentators You Never Knew Started In Hollywood

The famous Fox News anchor was almost cast as Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties when the character was envisioned as a young Republican who tortured animals and tried to get a gay teacher fired.

In 1992, Ingraham showed up wearing an actual Nazi armband for her Schindler’s List audition before she even knew the movie was about the Holocaust.

Greg Gutfeld directed Star Wars.

Nowadays Hanks is known for his fiery internet lectures calling for the formation of a white ethnostate, but the xenophobic extremist actually got his start in acting.

Got his start as a cultural sensitivity consultant on The Passion Of The Christ in 2004.

A former NBC page, McCain quickly became disillusioned when a barista didn’t know who her dad was.

Discovered by David Attenborough’s documentarians while they were filming a segment about rare predators in the desert.

While not a major Hollywood player, Dobbs did appear in a 1974 erotic film during which he was urinated on for 20 straight minutes and declined any financial compensation.

The longtime Fox commentator first appeared on screen alongside Emma Thompson as the tragically dedicated butler in Remains Of The Day.

“Doocy” was actually a character created for a Mad TV audition by comedian and improviser Chris Davis, who became so committed to the bit he hasn’t dropped character in over 20 years.

He started out writing screenplays, but producers found Ben Shapiro too full of himself for Hollywood.

Walsh got his start dancing as one of the fly girls on In Living Color.

Although its message is often misinterpreted, I Love You, Man was actually meant to be a conservative polemic against post–Cold War American foreign policy.

At the beginning of his career, Glenn Beck was a disc jockey for the nationally syndicated L.A. morning drive-time radio show On Air With Ryan Seacrest.

The now-infamous conspiracy theorist had modest beginnings as a busker, going on pro-gun tirades at Orange County farmers markets in exchange for pocket change from passersby.

Before he was speaker of the house or a conservative commentator, Gingrich made his living doing a stand-up act so filthy it actually got him arrested in 18 states.

Forgettable contribution to 1995’s Clueless prepared her for an equally insignificant role in right-wing commentary.

Give it three more years.