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Paul Rudd // The Early ’90s Bat Mitzvah DJ

If you’re a Paul Rudd fan with his awesome resume including; Dinner for Schmucks, I Love You Man, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Knocked Up,  and Clueless I don’t know how you couldn’t be you’ve got to check out the video after the jump of a pre-fame Rudd sporting a yellow tuxedo and shorts working as a Bat Mitzvah DJ in Southern California in 1992.

Forward writer Gabrielle Birkner, who re-discovered the footage of that awesome day recalls:

He emceed my bat mitzvah, back in 1992 months before landing a recurring role the NBC drama “Sisters.” (“Clueless” was still a few years off.) The soft-spoken aspiring actor whom my mom and I met on the hunt for bat mitzvah DJs I took an immediate liking to Rudd turned out to be the perfect choice for the event. Rudd, donning a yellow tuxedo jacket, a ruffled shirt, shorts and Doc Martens, ably and energetically led us through all of the bat mitzvah staples: Candle-lighting, Coke & Pepsi, Toasts, limbo, “Hands Up,” Challah-cutting and “YMCA.” And as the “Today” show-themed bat mitzvah party came to a close, he invited my friends onto the dance floor to sing a moving rendition of “That’s What Friends Are For.”

Video after the jump:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVHhWK_tlpw

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