Kevin and Bean - Recurring Themes, Characters, & Running Jokes - Noted Former Cast Members

Noted Former Cast Members

The show has been the stepping stone for celebrities such as:

• Jimmy Kimmel got his start as their sports announcer. Annually, he returns to the show to reprise his role as "Santa" Karl, an inappropriately crass Santa Claus character who takes calls from children in the voice of basketball player Karl Malone.
• Adam Carolla would do spots as the cranky Mr. Birchum (who later became a character on Comedy Central's Crank Yankers). Adam has returned to the show to do a weekly segment called "This Week In Rage" after the demise of his own syndicated radio show.
• Michael Dwight "Psycho Mike" Catherwood — Former assistant producer for the show, he frequently stars in man-on-the-street segments as well as parodies of most commercial songs which generally involve crude themes. Psycho Mike is also an amateur body builder and a certified personal trainer, a recovering addict, and has appeared in several segments educating listeners about exercise and nutrition. He also voices Kevin Federline, Sergeant Rip Shred Master, Spencer Pratt, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Listener Rudy, Tom DeLonge and Anthony Kiedis among others. He often comes under scrutiny by other show participants due to the sexual noises he makes whenever an attractive female is mentioned. Still stops by to do voices. He recently participated in the series Dancing with the Stars.
• Matt "Money" Smith, Jimmy's replacement, now on AM570 as a co-host for a drive time sports talk show with Petros Papadakis, himself a frequent guest of the Kevin and Bean show, titled "The Petros and Money Show (or PMS)" Monday through Friday from 4-7 on AM570 KLAC.
• The Virgin Kennedy aka Lisa Kennedy Montgomery a morning show intern who became a KROQ disc jockey and later an MTV veejay.
• Miss Cleo — Formerly an intern and a phone screener. Known for her enormous chest and inability to ad lib, the latter forming the basis to the on-air game "Title Fight," in which contestants must guess song titles that she describes.

Other personalities no longer with the show include:

• Big Tad — an overweight and incompetent production assistant, he was fired and rehired by Kevin and Bean several times. He would also drive the KROQ van and give out prizes at various public locations. He was later given a job by Jimmy Kimmel and was seen on Jimmy Kimmel Live! several times. Tad later worked on Carolla's radio show.
• Michael "The Maintenance Man" Burton — an actual maintenance man in the building where KROQ had its studios, he came to be an active member of the show, performing man-on-the-street interviews and making public appearances. In the fall of 1995, Burton left the show and filed a wrongful-termination suit charging the station along with Kevin and Bean with racial and religious discrimination. The suit was settled in late 1996.
• Paul, The Fifty-Five Year Old Intern (aka Richard Cheese aka Mark Jonathan Davis) — Also known as the World's Oldest Intern, would appear in comedy sketches and was a tireless fan of Frank Sinatra. He sang (badly) in the Sinatra style many times on the show. The gimmick of a middle-aged intern has since been stolen by 91X's Cantore In The Morning, as "Tom, the 47-year-old intern"
• Chet Waterhouse, Sports Reporter — Actually stand-up comedian Jeff Cesario. The character of Waterhouse was a stereotypical bombastic sports reporter who spoke in a mealy-mouthed voice and used rickety metaphors. He was replaced by Jimmy Kimmel.
• Producer Frank Murphy on the Realistic Plug 'n' Talk. Frank was once challenged by Kevin & Bean to sell 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies for his daughter at morning show events.
• Sports guy Dean - filled in for Matt "Money" Smith for a few months in late 2005, then later disappeared from the show without mention. It wasn't until many months later that it was noted that their superiors thought the team did not need a dedicated sports reporter, because of the addition to the production budget.