John Lehr

A veteran of the national comedy scene, this amusing Midwesterner honed his humor on big-city stages, training with Chicago's famed Second City, touring the country in the improv outfit Slotnick, Katz and Lehr, and mounting his one-man show The Lehr Curse: A Series of Comedic Lectures off-Broadway. In 1993, he went to Los Angeles and began penning pilots (few of which came to fruition) and landing TV guest spots as well as small film parts. Although Lehr was constantly working, a one-year stint as the title character's brother on the short-lived sitcom Jesse and hosting duties on I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! were his highest-profile gigs to date — until he cocreated his own starring vehicle, the semi-improvised comedy 10 Items or Less about the wacky high jinks at an authentic, functioning grocery store.