# What! \[Mark Wahlberg = Marky Mark\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 22, 2010, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509 "2010-11-22T03:48:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/41 "2010-11-22T15:36:23Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > I first heard of/saw him in **Boogie Nights**. I never knew him as “Marky Mark” so my first exposure was as a very good actor. He’s been in a few bad ones, but most of his movies are good-to-great and he himself is always worth watching. I heard he had a stand-in for the penis scenes. Could have been male envy though. Honestly, I don’t remember the movie that well. Maybe I’ll watch it again. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/42 "2010-11-22T15:39:18Z")
But David Johansen from The New York Dolls _is_ Buster Poindexter, sadly. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/43 "2010-11-22T15:41:46Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Psst! His brother, Donnie, also now an actor, used to be with New Kids on the Block. And returned to being on the block in Saw 4! ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/44 "2010-11-22T15:43:08Z")
> [@MandaJo](#): > > Anyone younger than 30, I suspect. Twenty-five year olds were born in 1985. They know as much about NKOTB-era music as they know about Menudo. I’m between 25 and 30, and I still _always_ think of this Wahlberg guy as Marky Mark. I remember him and his Funky Bunch clearly. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/45 "2010-11-22T15:44:27Z")
Let me in the fucking house! ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/46 "2010-11-22T15:47:06Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > I heard he had a stand-in for the penis scenes. Could have been male envy though. Honestly, I don’t remember the movie that well. Maybe I’ll watch it again. There was only one scene with Marky Mark’s penis in Boogie Nights and it was a prothesis. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/47 "2010-11-22T15:47:21Z")
> [@Erdosain](#): > > I don’t think we should hold things over people’s heads forever, but I’ve always been a little peeved that no one cares that Marky Mark blinded some guy when he was 16 while yelling racial epithets at him. > > It’d be nice if he gave him some money. He did more than that, and continued to be an asshole at least through some of his early career. He also turned down a lead role in _Brokeback Mountain_ because he was uncomfortable with the sex scenes. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/48 "2010-11-22T15:55:11Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I think it’s probably why he’s so religious now. Trying to make up for his misspent youth. Or he’s getting older and is afraid of going to hell when he dies. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/49 "2010-11-22T16:47:51Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Yeah, well I once believed that “Timbaland” and Justin Timberlake were either (a) the same person, or (b) “Timbaland” was Justin Timberlake’s production company. > > Now that I’ve bared my soul… get off my lawn! Wait. What? So which one of them owns the Timberland shoe company? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/50 "2010-11-22T17:18:50Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > And Kanye West is not Cornell West. Nor Adam West, for that matter. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/51 "2010-11-22T17:29:08Z")
I’m not kidding, BTW. For a long time I was positive that Cornell/Kanye West was an eminent ivy league professor who had embarked upon a successful carreer as a rap musician. Imagine my disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509/52 "2010-11-22T19:12:31Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Psst! His brother, Donnie, also now an actor, used to be with New Kids on the Block. Still is. [KNOtBS](http://www.nkotb.com/). I guess they should really call themselves “middle age men on the block”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-mark-wahlberg-marky-mark/561509.md?page=2)