Pro Skater to Award Winning Actor: The Jason Lee Story | Looking Back 

Other videos of mine that you might like: Coach Frank History (follow-up to this video): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ES3zTmGof7U.html Jay and Silent Bob Complete Retrospective: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_xtA4SpzQg.html My Name is Earl / Raising Hope Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uJTXPEA8d9A.html

You forgot to mention his role as Coach Frank in Skate 3, best character in the Skate franchise next to Reda.

I never knew he was a skater! Makes sense why he was put into skate 3 now. Love him as an actor! Can’t even remember how many times I re watched my name is earl.

Man I had no idea he'd been a pro before his acting career kicked off, nevermind how central he was to the stories of some the skate companies I first identified with in the early 00's. Excellent work

Yeah, gotta admit, Jason Lee is one of those really underrated actors that, while he's gotten credit, i think he should have gotten more because i think i've enjoyed every character he's played. This is making me want to go back and watch "Mall Rats" again.

Never realized how monumental he was in street skating holy shit

Shout out to Jason. He’s a legend!!

Jason’s story is incredibly inspiring. Dude is wholesome, hilarious, and a great friend to those around him. He shifts focus without losing touch with those from his past and follows his passions wholeheartedly

Loved Jason Lees appearance on Skate 3. He was hilarious in My name is Earl. Great Skateboarder, he’s an OG.

Jason Lee is such an actor that you feel like you have known all your life but you really have no clue where you saw him first. This was really well put together and good stuff overall. And I hate myself for having forgotten he was the voice of Syndrome. He did such a good job on that one. =) One of the biggest crime in "TV" was cancelling My name is Earl. Great show, great characters lot's of heart.

I loved Mallrats. And I don’t care what anyone says about it. It was freaking brilliant.

For the longest time i avoided my name is earl, but when i finally watched it i was pretty bummed i didnt get into it earlier. Its such a well writen and acted show. Among the best comedy shows for sure.

I met Jason Lee at "The Edge" Skatepark here in Fremantle, Australia in the very early 90's. I had no idea who he was at the time but did geek out at his fantastic skating. He was such a friendly guy and signed something for me at the time. I still follow Jason on Instagram to this day.

You did such an amazing job on this documentary, bro, this is such an underrated video! I loved Jason Lee growing up, so much nostalgia in 18 minutes, absolutely blew me away. Thank you, Media Pastimes, your channel deserves far more recognition!

Dude hitting nothing but net, skating, acting, business, arts. What a dude

Top quality content. Always loved Jason Lee

this is so well edited and voiced over i honestly never knew Jason lee had such a diverse background. loved this

Jason Lee already being an awesome skater and starting from scratch into acting is like Jimi Hendrix if he suddenly pursued stand-up comedy. Not where you’d expect them to be, but they mastered it.

When critics have no clue they are watching gold before their eyes. Mallrats was and still one of the best comedys ever made.

This makes me respect him so much more I had no idea! I had heard the name Jason Lee thrown around as a skater growing up but I never made the connection. I was a 90s kid so he would've been getting out when I was maybe like 10 years old. Respect!

Jesus this video was so well put together! You really knocked it out of the park. So crazy how involved this guy was with my childhood with out even realizing it. Grew up skating starting on world industries boards and he was in several movies and ofc my name is earl.

Jason is definitely a likeable dude, naturally funny. I had no idea he was a pro skater till today but the guy rips!..

All your videos cover everything that was important to me as a kid/teen

I think that the key to this man's success is that he exudes relaxed confidence all of the time. 5 years from now if you told me that Lee cured cancer by just walking into a lab and convincing the scientists to let him take a crack at it, I wouldn't be too shocked.

Definitely can tell you had passion in the making of this video. Had me glued till the end. Great job!!

This video was really well made! Great breakdown of both the skating and the acting parts of his career

Excellent exposé! I've been a fan of Jason Lee since I scored a copy of 'Video Days' as a skater punk back in the day... all the way over in Perth, Western Australia. It's been vicariously inspiring to follow his career over the years knowing where he came from. Great job boiling it down & putting it together with the nostalgic slant it deserved, It's clear you enjoyed putting it together.

Jason Lee was one of my favorite pro skateboarders back in the day. It's been interesting to see how his career grew. Loved My Name is Earl too. Friggin hilarious show!

I found out Jason was a photographer last year and he has actually released books. Pretty badass.

Solid video, very well put together. I could tell you had fun making this video. Especially the baby with the mustache lol.

Totally fell in love with the guy (and its fantastic cast) when Earl was on, what a beautiful soul. Thanks for the video, I learnt a lot

Man, thanks for doing these videos on Jason. He's always been a favorite of mine.

I’m so glad I ran across this. I love Jason Lee and I never knew he was a skater! This made my heart smile. ☺️

"Stealing Harvard" was the first time I came across Jason Lee, as well as Tom Green. Going back through their careers was super entertaining. I hope they feel fullfilled with where they are now because I know it brought a lot of joy into my life. I think My name is Earl really touched a lot of people in a positive way and lasted as long as it should have, furthermore seeing Tom Green with his RU-vid adventures has also had the same effect.

Jason Lee is an absolute legend, I'm not a fan boy or anything but he's just awesome. Thanks for sharing.

Absolute LEGEND!!!! Great video dude. Jason was my absolute favorite skateboarder and overall role model. I remember getting video days and man that video was the soundtrack to my happier days. Not a care in the world just a skateboard and nothing but time. I just always remember feeling so proud of Jason for representing misunderstood skateboarders and “making it” in Hollywood with a resume of professional skater.

I really liked this video a lot! I love Jason Lee, and Paul Rudd. Two of my favorite actors, I often get them two confused. Great sense of humor in both of them..... great video bud!

I first saw him in Dogma and asked, "Who is this scene-stealing dude and why have I not seen him before? He is great!" And then I went down the Kevin Smith rabbit hole lol

Damn, Jason was such a good skater. He had style and pop in every trick. For that time he was really advanced.

Great video! I had the pleasure of meeting Jason Lee a few times over the years and I can say he's such a cool guy in person too.

Watching My Name is Earl for the first time was an experience. Love that show.

I remember switching from Santa Cruz (Grosso and Hosoi) to SMA from the big very boards to the slimmer street style boards. My first was the Mike Valley zoo board and I shredded the shit out of it. Never went back to the big heavier decks.

Being an early millennial, Mallrats was one of those iconic movies that defined the times for my generation, and I think it was too culturally relevant for critics to understand (unlike something like Dazed and Confused which was a time piece and thus something adult critics at the time could understand since they were likely teens in the 70s). Watching it back then, I knew it would be a cult classic and I didn't even know that it bombed at the box office and with critics. There was just nothing else even remotely like it, it turned the teen / early 20 something genre on its head, disposing with the lame cliches and bringing in something that felt authentic, if somewhat corny. That movie made the characters seem cool while also being hapless losers who hadn't figured their lives out at the same time, and it didn't treat comics and video games as just some side joke about nerds. Jason Lee's character was something I wanted to be but was not yet at the time: a confident guy who was comfortable in his own skin as a somewhat nerdy skater type, who was always being witty and making insightful comments. He has at least a dozen iconic lines in this film that I still love and repeat. Nobody like this had ever been made cool in a movie before, he was kinda someone to look up to in a way, an unlikely anti-hero. I never liked My Name is Earl despite really liking Jason Lee, so that was a disappointment for me. I had high hopes after finding out that he was the star of a TV show. It is too bad he never did any other TV projects. I feel like he could have been great in an adult buddy sitcom with young adults, the sort that became popular later on like Workaholics, New Girl, It's Always Sunny, etc. Or maybe his own HBO show, where he could just let the expletives fly. He could have a been a great character in something like Silicon Valley or Californication, maybe even Shameless. I'm happy for the guy to have made a fortune on dumb voiceover stuff so he could effectively retire and move on with his life, but it's hard not to think of what could have been. He is just so good at playing a witty and likable guy who you also kinda want to punch. He always felt authentic.

It's crazy that so many people don't know he used to skate. Jason Lee is a legend in the skateboarding world! He was my favorite skater back in the 90's. He was so dope in the old Blind "Video Days" video. I had his board and his signature skate shoes. I still have one of his Stereo boards now.

Jason is one of those actors who I’m not obsessed with but anytime I see his face I immediately want to watch because I love him

He always struck me as a really cool and genuine guy. Kind of a Keanau Reeves type personality.

This was a shocker. Never in a million years would of thought Jason Lee was a skater.

I met Jason Lee at Shut Up and Skate Contest in 1993 during the Blind Days not long after he became every street skaters hero from the Video Days Era, He was super friendly at the time and his wife even chatted with us little skate rats like she was just hanging out with the boys... So much Nostalgia I'm getting misty eyed..

This was really well put together

Wow. I was a big fan of blind boards when I started skating in the late 90s. But as time went on their boards just kinda stayed the same never innovating so I kept swapping brands. I had no idea Jason Lee was the owner back then. God I miss 90s culture. What a time to live through. Riding my bike to school. Coming home and skating and/or playing nintendo 64 then just disappearing to a friends house without telling my parents and just showing back up around 8-9pm. The world was so much simpler back then. Then 9/11 happened. I was like 12 years old at the time. The local skatepark had opened on the 7th or 8th of that september. I remember going to school and quickly realizing something was up. A bunch of kids were going home. One kid came to school late and told me "the world train center was hit by a plane" Me being 12 couldn't understand why a train station would get hit by a plane or what a terrorist was. Anyways I only cared about one thing. The skatepark. When I got home from school I begged my parents to take me to the skatepark they tried to explain why it was a bad idea but I countered with "but that means it will be empty!" I think I got my way and went but none of my friends were there. After that things have just gone downhill. Man I'd give anything to go back and live for a couple of days in the late 90s/early 2000s.

no mention of skate 3?

YOU KNOCKED THIS VIDEO OUT OF THE PARK!!! Great work!

epic video bro....sooooo much fun and it brought back scoundrel memories of the 90's. Thank you and merry xmas.

I'm subscribed already??? Gotta turn my notifications on I dig this

Another awesome video man! Appreciate the instagram posts on the progress. Can't wait to see your videos get more recognition. The passion you had for this project is inspirational. Mallratz was great! I also just watched Chasing Amy. I found out that Joe Frantz showed up on set and was a pa. He ruined the heavy rain kissing seen by accidentally setting off an alarm lol.

Yoooo this video was awesome!!! Learned so much about Jason Lee and it was inspiring. Thank you🤘🏼

great video man, Jason lee is one of my favourite actors because my brothers dvd collection was mainly mallrats dogma and my name is earl, plus seeing him in skate 3 shook me, but I soon realised after research that he was a pro skater before an actor and i had no idea and it made me love him more! good job on the vid man

Dude you deserve so many more subs, and you definitely have a new one here. Excellent subject matter, very well researched, crisp sound quality and captivating editing. Well done.

This is such a well researched video! Awesome!

this guy is a legend putting it all together shows how much he got done wild!

Cool, this was interesting to watch. Learned a ton about this guy. I honestly only knew of him from Scientology. Never seen my name is Earl. I kinda remember Alvin and the chipmunks from when my boys were kids. See, I worked so much back then (dental field) I missed everything and was never home. Never even to this day had cable tv. Lot of VHS and DVD back then tho. About ten maybe fifteen yrs ago my ex boss who is now one of my greatest friends was getting brainwashed into handing over thousands to the "church". They used this guy, Tom Cruise, Leah Remini, John Travolta ect as a marketing tool to become a high level donor. You get to hang out at the celebrity center in FL where you MIGHT run into them. I think he has since left. If so, great for him. That cult is dangerous. Woah. This brought back some crazy ass memories. YT recommends the craziest stuff to me. Any who, good video.

Lol, goes to show how much these professionals really don't know. Mallrats is one of the best movies ever made! Kevin Smith is a genius!!!

What an incredible nostalgia trip and fantastic insight to one of my childhood favourites

This was a SOLID VIDEO! Thanks for putting it together. 😃👍

I just finished watching My Name is Earl and I never knew he used to skate. That's really neat and this whole video is well done subscribed.

BOINK! " That's for canceling My name Is Earl". LMAO

Excellent video. I've always liked watching Jason in movies. He's awesome.

This is the first video I've been able to watch in its entirety on RU-vid for quite some time nicely done

I'd watch Mallrats over Clerks 1 any day. Those guys are nuts

Thank you for this. I sometimes wondered how Jason went from skating to acting. I didnt know used to be a pro skater till I watched On skateboardings Rodney mullen video. Mike V talked about how he thought Jason invented the 360 flip. Now I need to rewatch chasing Amy since it's been so long I forgot about Ben afflecks goatee.

Great Video. Mallrats was my favorite movie when I was a teenager back in the 90s; I still enjoy watching it along with Dogma.

It was fun. Great research, fab clips. Nicely done

Mallrats was awesome.

Surprised you didn’t mention his stint in Scientology.

The year was 2001, I was a sophomore in high school, and I discovered Mall Rats. It was brilliant and the “stink palm” was the absolute most funny thing ever. Because of Jason Lee in Mallrats, I discovered the other Kevin Smith films. Great video man!

I watch this video from beginning to end. Loved it! Thought to myself you were and established and popular youtuber. I scroll down to see you only have just started. Holy crap dude you nailed it. Keep up the good work you'll sky rocket subscribers.

Mad respect to skaters. I tried it but turns out I had big, fat, (and flat) slow feet. May have pulled off one proper ollie in my short attempt and totally wasted that sweet Wu-Tang deck I had back in 97'... 😆 🤣

first :)

very well made video man, kept me interested the whole way through :)

This is crazy cool! I never knew this! Thanks for sharing!

I really enjoyed and loved this story I appreciate you putting this together

Awesome video man. Really well put together.

Great video man keep it up! I don't say that often at all! You have the quality and craftsmanship of a fulltime professional RU-vid. You have a tonne of potential, don't give up!

Dude, I knew him as a skater and as an actor but had no idea it was the same guy. Thank you for educating me on that!

Jason Lee is literally my entire childhood it's almost hard to describe how many facets he's affected from skating to mallrat and the incredibles to Earl and underdog everything it's crazy

love the tone of your voice and flow of information. I don't if you've regularly pumped out these mini docos. but I'll be looking out. keep em coming and I'll watch em allllllll. I'm not even into skating. but respect an expert in their field. it's my favourite thing on the planet.

Love Jason Lee. Always blow peoples minds when I tell them he was a pro skater

This is wonderful, thank you for the obvious effort and passion you put into this video. 🍻 cheers 🍻

This turned out to be one of the best videos on the tube good job bud! 👍🏾

Loved Jason since the blind days. It's so great to see him make it and do it so big.

You tell a good story dude. Brilliant stuff - i was captivated immediately. Thanks so much. Subbed.

He's been my favorite for a long time ! Sooo glad I have a signed deck from him and photo 🤙

Awesome video! it was suggested on my home page. my name is earl was such a good show

Not sure if it's just something all of us do when we hit the big 30's. I can't get enough of documentary's videos. I am always watching them. I feel like I am always learning something😁

Been wanting content like this. Great stuff!

Wow an amazing vid, very well done. I learned some much behind the scenes stuff that was super interesting to me

That came right on time before his NineClub Interview. nice work! cheers from France

looking at your channel and watching a couple of your videos, dude you're so underrated, don't loose the hype of making videos.. there ton of famous people out that don't have documentaries.

Thank you for adding the Raising Hope scene. I laughed so hard the first time I saw that

what an awesome story tbh. Great video bro!