Outta all the MTV comedians that came and went during the '90s, Andy Dick as much as any other performer seemed to have risen to an oft thought of difficult height in the media's eyes. The constant attention - which he adroitly parodied on his show - is probably to blame, in part at least, for Dick's subsequent disappearance from the spotlight.

In a latter day sketch from The Andy Dick Show, Dick gets a visit from Luke Wilson, who is basically tortured prior to being admitted in to see the actor. It becomes clear, pretty quickly, that Dick has cloistered himself inside and has developed a phobia of germs. While, obviously, an absurd exaggeration, what Dick meant to portray here was that he had become inundated by his own celebrity and could no longer handle the gig. It apparently wasn't meant to be anyway as the show was cancelled at the end of that year.

Dick's show, which has often been seen as a continuation of his work on The Ben Stiller Show, features just as many guests and is structured in a similar fashion. Each disparate and pre-filmed sketch is separated by brief vignettes of Dick and his co-host for the week. On occasion, the guest has some new film or album to hock, but when that isn't the case, he or she is usually engaged in a weird back and forth about fame to some level, which again plays into Dick's eventual disappearance from the spotlight.

Of course, off screen problems seemed to have plagued the blond haired actor, who once figured the following:

"Sitting in the back of the cop car urinating all over myself, crying, blowing my nose into my own shirt - It was incomprehensible demoralization."

Those are some pretty dire straights, but it seems as if the comedian and actor is making an attempt at a comeback. Although, reality television isn't always a good idea for an actor and never a good idea as a viewer, Dick has decided to take part in a show that focuses on stars who have had substance abuse issues, are currently clean and aim to make in roads back to stardom.

It would seem, though, that at this late date, Dick isn't actually primed for such a move. As was always the case with him during the days that he found himself on television, there was always a foil to his neurotic persona. For a time it was Ben Stiller, who now is otherwise occupied being one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood (I would like to hear a conversation in passing between the two, though). And later it was Tom Green who seemed only to aggravate Dick - although that was most likely an on screen conflagration.

Most recently, Dick has found himself in the company of none other than Howard Stern, who has not only had the comedian on his show as a guest, but has also given him a slot of his own on Sirius. It remains to be seen if that'll yield some new attention, but at least he's not peeing on anyone right now - that we know of at least.