Actor Jay Mohr – who is the star of Gary Unmarried and had roles in Jerry Maguire and Saturday Night Live, – got married to Las Vegas actress Nikki Cox two years ago. No one really noticed because Mohr and Cox aren’t exactly A-list celebs. They probably get asked for autographs at Starbucks once in a while, and that’s about the extent of it. But now Mohr is getting some very rude attention for deciding to take Cox’s last name.
Jay is unwittingly looking to add Mohr laughs to his life.
Following in the footsteps of John Ono Lennon, the Gary Unmarried star filed a petition a week ago to legally add his wife's surname to his own, thereby making his full appellation Jon (his birth name) Ferguson Cox Mohr.
Well, better than the other way around, isn't it?
Seriously, though, it's a sweet gesture—and a two-year anniversary present. Mohr swapped vows with Las Vegas actress Nikki Cox on Dec. 29, 2006. It was his second trip down the aisle and, per documents filed Dec. 19 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the one he's looking to make stick.
[From E! News]
E’s take on the story is relatively gentle and fair. Several other websites have mocked Mohr not just for the narrowly avoided, unfortunate, "Jay Leno wedding announcement-esq" bad last name combination, but for his decision to take his wife’s name at all. TMZ described it as “emasculating,” and many commenters on other websites have echoed similar opinions.
I agree with E!, it is an incredibly thoughtful gesture. And Cox added Mohr’s name to her own – why in the world shouldn’t he do the same? It is unconventional – and good for him for not caring.
Ironically, here’s Nikki and Jay at Starbucks on December 22nd. They do seem overly worried about being recognized, what with the head ducking and all. Images thanks to Bauer-Griffin. Header of them at the People's Choice Awards nominations in Beverly Hills on November 10th. Image thanks to WENN.
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37 RESPONSES TO "JAY MOHR GETS RIDICULED FOR TAKING HIS WIFE'S LAST NAME"
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Well what: December 28th, 2008 at 7:17 am
she sure did mess herself up. as someone stated on INO, she now looks like a caricature!!!!
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MoJo: December 28th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Seriously? It's almost 2009, and people are still calling this stuff "emasculating"? Okay, it's not the most traditional, but it's a pretty damn sweet gesture. It's not like he gave up his own name in the process.
(Or took added her name to the end of his, making him Jay Mohr Cox.)
(Okay, fine, I have the sense of humor of a 12-year-old boy.)
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Persistent Cat: December 28th, 2008 at 9:15 am
And that's why I didn't take my husband's last name. Why am I expected to surrender my name but he isn't? If I am addressed as Mrs. His-Last-Name, I answer. I expect him to answer if he is address by my last name. I knew a guy who flipped out when he was addressed as Mr. His-Wife's-Last-Name. Asshole.
Kudos to Jay Mohr.
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FF: December 28th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
That's an insult to women to say it's emasculating for a man to take his wife's last name. Are you saying women are inferior by implication or something? And that we should all live 'up' to being 'manly'?
I'm glad he did it if only to show up people's obnoxious gender-based assumptions.
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hel: December 28th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Women were considered possessions and the taking of the surname showed ownership by the husband. There are plently of couples out there with double barrel surnames. I don't see the problem, in fact I think its sweet of him.
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Ohforf: December 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I'd take my fiance's last name when we get married, if it wasn't currently her ex-husbands last name.
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BLA: December 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
THE LIPS.
GAH!!!
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Gigohead: December 28th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Jay needs to be ridiculed for allowing his young wife to ruin her face the way she did. I know Hollywood is phony, but to allow this young gal to inject 50 lbs of filler in her mouth is unjust and plain cruel.
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Suse: December 28th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I'm from Spain and here the wife has never taken his husband's surname. We conserve both of our surnames because, in fact, we have two: first our father's surname and, second, our mother's. Nowadays you can change it: first mother's and then father's, though many people still follows the tradition father-mother.
What I want to say with all this is that, for us, taking your husband's surname would be the strange thing. We find it really sexist and women denigrating.
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voodoobetty: December 28th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
My father who is a very masculine mans man took his new wifes last name because they live in a small town and she is a lawyer and well established in the community and he thought it would be easier for her if she didnt have to change her name since her name is already so well known and respected in her community. I think its a lovely gesture actually. He called me before he got married to ask me if I minded and I gave him my blessing.
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vdantev: December 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Feminists have really scr#@ed women up. Even the common inherited traditions of marriage get sphincters in overload. And this bull is somehow 'too sacred' for gay couples because ??
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Nouvel: December 28th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
High five VDANTEV craziness gay couples have every right to marry and anyone who thinks differently is pathetic.
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Darren: December 28th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I think it was cool on his part to take his wife's last name.
Anyone bashing him is obviously an insecure a-hole - like the locker room or school bus bully.
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Wif: December 28th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
vdantev, would you change your last name just because tradition says so? I would have thought you, of all people, would be one to ask "why" instead of blindly following ancient traditions that hold little relevance in today's culture.
Signed, "A Respectful Feminist" (not screwing women up since 1998)
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tess: December 28th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
seriously scary facework on the new mrs mohr beachley.
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vdantev: December 28th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Wif,
True iconoclasts avoid the power of the zeitgeist at all costs.
My God, people are so self-obsessed and self-absorbed. Whatever happened to good old fashioned picket fence, white dress and pearls, sweep me off to my three room cape cod home romance? It got killed by some shrieking harpy with a hyphenated name, a prenup and a chip on her shoulder. If you haven't figured out how to make life more than a name- give up the game already.
I didn't marry a last name, I married a woman I loved, and I was deeply honored and moved that she decided to take my last name as her own, above all others. This is what happens when lawyers, politicians and businessmen tell us how to conduct our sexual business over the last 25 years.
Insanity.
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Wif: December 28th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
" I was deeply honored and moved that she decided to take my last name as her own, above all others." But, if she didn't have the choice, then her acceptance of your last name would have meant nothing.
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Danielle: December 28th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
I look at names as like little tab placements mainly useful for geneaology. My Swedish grandfather changed his name when he came over to something more "Americanized" and naturally when I tried to trace my roots..I didn't find anyone with my last name in Sweden and I wondered why until he told me. A name is just letters. If you share a name, it's as if sharing a heart. If it sounds pretty, bonus. It's nothing demoralizing and it's not going to steal your soul or make you any less of a person. Nobody "owns" you when you're in love. I took my husband's last name as though I was stealing it. It's a very nice last name and it flows better with my name. But am I personified by that alone? Does that make me any less of a woman or person? No. And my point is that people should be able to change their names to anything they want as long as it's pronouncable and not insane like those people who want numbers for names. We already have number names. Social security. lol.
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Enonymous: December 28th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I agree Wif and others, the point is that women AND men should have the choice if they want to keep their own name or change it with out being criticized (if you are a woman) or ridicule (if you are a man). I think what Jay Mohr did was a very sweet gesture to his wife.
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Codzilla: December 28th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Her lips I don't even know. Hold me.
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WTF?!?!: December 28th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Ohforf, that is brilliant, and an excellent point of how pointless this "debate" really is.
Mohr gets props for not turning his new name into a cheap joke (he is a comedian, after all).
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Amy: December 28th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
I wish my husband were as thoughtful as Jay Mohr. I find this to be an adorable gesture. Good for them!
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Hollene: December 28th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
Her lips are making my eyes hate me. Oy, gevalt.
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Holly: December 28th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
TMZ's take on it is incredibly offensive.
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Holly: December 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
"My God, people are so self-obsessed and self-absorbed. Whatever happened to good old fashioned picket fence, white dress and pearls, sweep me off to my three room cape cod home romance? It got killed by some shrieking harpy with a hyphenated name, a prenup and a chip on her shoulder."
Um, it disappeared when women realized that they weren't doomed to a life of domesticity if they didn't want it. Some of us don't want to be kept women. You sir, are a jerk. You seem to be living in a mentality that sees women as possessions by their husbands. You're so sexist, you don't even see how sexist you really are. Treating women special or different is not treating them like an equal.
If you dont see why a woman would get upset about being expected to take her husband's last namewell, then, you just don't get it. And you probably never will.
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vdantev: December 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Holly, you wouldn't know love it stood up and sold you life insurance. Your soul-dead selfishness screams volumes. Another victim of mirror generation, fathered by lassez-faire capitalism, conceived under the warm glow of VH1's My Super Sweet 16, and birthed by Cosmpolitan magazine at your local shopping mall.
'me me me me me' be your mantra to keep you warm at night.
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Carena: December 28th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
The only reason I will take my soon to be husband's last name is because I'm sick of people butchering my own. It gets tiring spelling it out, teaching people how to pronounce it, and then explaining my roots every time someone sees my last name for the first time.
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Persistent Cat: December 28th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Wow, that's the smuggest comment I've ever read. You're kind of an idiot.
It's not a "me" generation thing. It's your name. I see a name as more than letters, it's who you are. I was not willing to change my name because it's mine and who I am.
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NotBlonde: December 28th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Whether women choose to take their spouse's name or the other way around is a highly personal thing and shouldn't be judged by others.
I'm taking my future husband's name (should I ever get married) because my father was a douche and I don't want his name anymore. I could always change it before, but it would be a serious pain in the ass.
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Zoe: December 28th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
This is a rare thing for me think, but Dante, dear, you're dead wrong on this.
My name is incredibly important to me. I lived with it all my life for God's sake. My father barely survived WWII, came to America with nothing, learned the language, built himself up from nothing, and he's dead now and our last name MEANS something to me.
When I got married, I was honored to take my husband's name, but keep mine as well (not hyphenated, just both). I can assure you that it was romantic enough, even by your standards.
Our children have both our names as well. We are both "ethnic" by American standards and want our kids to carry that with them as part of their cultural identity. It doesn't mean anything beyond that, just a name, I know, but part of who we all are nonetheless.
As WIF beautifully said, if I didn't have the choice, it wouldn't have meant anything for me to take his name.
I think I know what you mean about everyone taking stuff too seriously and it getting all PC and out of hand, but dude, find another way of saying it.
BTW, like WIF, I too am a proud feminist, not a "shrieking harpy."
And I'm not even going to get into the racial implications of your reasoning
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Sarah: December 28th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Seriously what's the deal? He took her name. So what?
I just don't get the fuzz. That's rather medival thoughts I am reading on some comments. We live in the 21st century. He took her name! Get over it!!!
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Aspen: December 29th, 2008 at 12:19 am
So a woman enters into a relationship with a man who dates her for some time. He falls in love with her, forms his life around hers, and wishes to make their bond legal, spiritual, and permanent through marriage.
If the woman spends even one second examining his motives for the subversive or insidious intention of suppressing her, possessing her, or stealing her identitythen she's a great fool who will never find out any measure of happiness in this life. That much anger and fear cannot be conquered with a ring, financial stability, or even a lifetime of devotion from some poor man or other who will never, try as he might, be good enough.
Naming conventions are a private matter. Land no longer passes genetically and fortunes are no longer kept in a family or preserved intact based upon male lineage. Women are no longer business transactions for the gentry. That being the case, I don't judge people for their naming choices. I think the Mohr example is cute and loving.
That said, the feminist notion that a husband is just trying to steal both your individuality and your soulis harmful to women everywhere. Believe it or not, you don't have to make SURE he does 50% of the housework and remind him daily that he doesn't "own" you in order to maintain your dignity and respectability.
I have been both a successful career woman and then a kept woman. I liked being good at my work and receiving that praise, but I like "working" for my family much better. They love me. My work paid me. Huge difference.
I like being needed, loved, wanted, and protected. There is nothing insidious in my husband's fondness for and sense of obligation to me. I entrusted my life to his care when we married. That doesn't make me an idiot, and it sure as hell hasn't made me subservient. Dependant? A little, perhaps, but if one is not willing to drop a bit of pride for her partner in lifewhy have one at all?
It's called love, trust, and respect.
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Pia: December 29th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I love my last name, so I decided to keep it. Of course, since my last name is so awesome, I did offer to share it with my husband. He turned it down but mostly because he's attached to his last name, too. So, we're two people fully committed and in love with two awesome last names. Doesn't make us less or more committed.
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Wif: December 29th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Aspen, I honestly wouldn't call the idea "that a husband is just trying to steal both your individuality and your soul" a feminist notion. I think that is something that some militant, highly visible feminists may have supported, but I have not yet met a single, real-world feminist who believes that. I am a feminist, my friends are feminists (some of them professional academic ones) and what I have seen is the examination of cultural standards, a lot of questioning and the promotion of equality and choices.
I am a stay-at-home mom (I work maybe 5 hours a week on the side for fun), I do the bulk of the traditional feminine roles in my home, because, quite frankly between my husband and I, I'm the best at them. This is the life that I have chosen, and am loving. And in regards to the name thing, I kept my last name (no hyphen) but my children have their father's last name. Again, it doesn't make me feel like less of a wife or mother, it doesn't even seem to confuse the kids.
Sorry, I rambled there a bit, didn't I? I just wanted to support the notion that feminism is not as negative as many seem to believe.
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Joolzz: December 29th, 2008 at 2:17 am
I didnt change my last name as I am attached to it for various reasons. My husband talks about changing his to mine, as he does not like his family, and his last name means nothing to him. Really it's all about choice and we are all entitled to do what we like with our names.
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chartreuseoak: December 29th, 2008 at 3:41 am
hmmmomg white picket fences seriously?
what drugs do you give your wife to see white picket fences? i want some.
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Lem: December 29th, 2008 at 3:53 am
who still reads tmz ?
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