Vince’s last name is ‘Offer.’ I’m not sure if he changed it to Offer when he started in infomercials or if it was just coincidence. I’d also belive it was a sign.

And aside from doing a masterful job selling ShamWow! and SlapChop, Vince also directed and starred in Undergroud Comedy Movie. If you’re not familiar with this gem, it has 2.8 stars on IMDB and is on the worst 100 movies list.

Litigation history with UCM:

On Sept. 23, 1998, Vince Offer filed a suit against 20th Century Fox and the co-directors of There’s Something About Mary, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Offer
claimed that 14 scenes in Mary were lifted from his film. The Farrellys released this statement: “We’ve never heard of him, we’ve never heard of his movie, and it’s all a bunch of baloney.”
In 2000, Offer sued Anna Nicole Smith for $4 million. Offer claimed that Smith had agreed to be in his movie, but backed out in 1996 over fears that appearing in the movie would be detrimental to her career.
In 2004, Offer sent out a press release through prnews.com announcing his intention to sue the Church of Scientology. Previously, in 1997, while production was ongoing, the Church of Scientology allegedly began a large-scale smear campaign against Offer and his film (Offer was a Scientologist at the time). The director claimed the Scientologists’ “Celebrity Center” in Hollywood labeled him a “criminal” (based on the rules of Scientology) and threatened his Scientology friends in the movie business with “condemnation” punishment that could be lethal to their careers if they did not write malicious reports against Offer.

Source: Wiki