Career
Prior to his involvement in the O.J. Simpson trial, he was in an early 1990s movie called Beach Fever, in which he created a love potion with his friend and hit on girls at the beach, and starred in a low budget crime movie Night Shadow in 1989. He also had a minor role in National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2.
Kaelin appeared on the first episode of the Fox sketch comedy MADtv (October 1995) and also made a cameo appearance on the HBO sketch comedy, Mr. Show during the show's first season (Nov. 1995). In the episode titled "We Regret to Inform You", he shows up at lobotomized actor Borden Grote's party.
He has made numerous forays into reality television. He was in the 2002 series, "Celebrity Boot Camp." In 2004, he participated in the development of a 2004 reality show called House Guest, in which he would live in the homes of other celebrities. The show never aired. He was seen on an episode of the E! reality series Sunset Tan, asking specifically for a "farmer's tan." He was also a guest player on the 6th episode of the Comedy Central series Reality Bites Back. In 2008, he was a contestant in the Fox Reality reality show Gimme My Reality Show, in which D-list celebrities competed to receive their own reality show.
He has also participated in game shows. He was a contestant on the hit game show Russian Roulette as well as the reality dating show BZZZ! with host Annie Wood. In 2005, Kaelin appeared in the first three National Lampoon's Strip Poker pay-per-view programs (Kaelin is an avid poker player). The titles were filmed at the Hedonism II, a naturist resort in Negril, Jamaica, which led Kaelin to quip, "The first few days there were the hardest!" The Playboy bunnies, WWE Divas, and pin-up models competing in the no-limit Texas hold 'em games, and upon losing all their chips and clothes, had to dive into the "Pool of Shame" and visit "Kato's Guesthouse," where Kaelin would defile the nude defeated players. Kato also appeared in numerous comedic skits.
He also has worked as a host on television and radio. For a short time in 1995 he worked as a radio talk host on KLSX in Los Angeles, and also provided online content for National Lampoon. From June 2005 to sometime in 2006, Kato Kaelin co-hosted Eye for an Eye, a daytime TV court show that is in syndication in 34 countries. Kaelin is a recurring guest on the video game review show X-Play.
In February of 2009 Kaelin guest-starred in the web series Star-ving and the movie Whacked.
Recently, Kato was seen on the show Tosh.0 doing a parody of the keyboard cat video titled "Keyboard Kato."
In 2010 Kaelin appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher, wearing a wig to play his younger self in a taped skit parodying 1990s television appearances by 2010 U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell.
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