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Like a train wreck, you just can’t pull away.

- Ricki Lake first bust on the scene as one of John Water's favorite actresses. She appeared in his original "Hairspray."

The Ricki Lake show was repeatedly parodied during the 1990s on Saturday Night Live, with male cast member Jay Mohr impersonating Lake in drag.

- After years of ballooning weight that topped at 260 lbs, Lake dropped down to 120 in 2007 with what she called her ‘new routine.’

Ricki Lake Minisode

Rating: TV-14 Genre: Talk

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American tabloid talk shows don't get much better than this. Watch with morbid curiosity as Ricki interviews an endless stream of freaks, while roaming the studio, taking questions like "what up with that?" from the audience. Welcome to the 1990s.

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Ricki Lake

Ricki Lake: Ricki's Most Out of Control Teens

(4:42)

By: The Minisode Network Released: 7/27/2009 Genre: Talk

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You thought you were a bad kid? Here Ricki looks back at the very best of the very worst teens around. There are sexual 14-year-olds, white supremacists, gang members, and more. It's really just a long advertisement for birth control.