Kenny Mayne - Other Ventures

Other Ventures

In January 2006, Mayne participated in the second season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars with partner Andrea Hale, but after a disastrous cha-cha, Mayne was the first contestant to be eliminated. In an interview with Brian Falvey in the Spring of 2007, Mayne joked that he left the 2006 Rose Bowl at halftime in order to get up early the next day to practice for "Dancing with the Stars." Subsequent seasons have seen Mayne return to the show for "DanceCenter," a parody of SportsCenter alongside former contestant Jerry Rice and judge Len Goodman. DanceCenter appears on the results show night of the week in which either five or six contestants remain.

Mayne was also in the 1998 film BASEketball which featured the creators of South Park Trey Parker and Matt Stone. He was alongside Dan Patrick and appeared on SportsCenter to cover the latest BASEketball playoff competition. In 1999, he played himself on The Drew Carey Show in the episode titled "Tracy Bowl".

Before agreeing to the deal with ESPN, Mayne had talks with Comedy Central about doing a sports-themed The Daily Show-style program and was a finalist to be the host of the syndicated version of Deal or No Deal. He confirmed both discussions.

Mayne has recently appeared in commercials for Progressive auto insurance, and Top Flite golf balls.

In November 2006, Mayne hosted the pilot episode of the CBS Primetime game show Power of 10 which would later be hosted by Drew Carey. Power of 10 producer Michael Davies was impressed with his performance on 2 Minute Drill, and wanted him to host one of his other game shows. After Mayne hosted the pilot, he decided to decline this hosting opportunity and it was given to Drew Carey.

In 2008 Mayne penned his first book, An Incomplete And Inaccurate History Of Sport, a collection of offbeat musings on sports and pop culture.

In 2010 he appeared in the animated film Kung Fu Magoo as himself.