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Before I go, I want to say something nice about David Spade. One, please. So, I was a comedian in New York and the
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bottom fell out of comedy like all in one day. Like all the clubs were closing like 90,
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this was 1992. Cable TV had come in and usurped. So, SNL had a big changeover of writers
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and staff. Mhm. So, they were coming to see everybody at Catch Rising Star. All the comedians
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were getting seen. and I did a a showcase and it was David Tella was on it, Laura Kylinger, Jannine Goff, Jay
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Moore, I mean a bunch of people uh got seen that night and I was put on first. John Stewart was hosting the show. This
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felt like the last train leaving for comedy for a lot of us. The show starts cuz it's like they're not there. No SNL
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people are there. And he goes, "You're going on first." I'm like, "They're not going to see me. They're not here." John
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Stewart stretched as long as he could to kind of set the table. try to get someone to be in the room on. There's an
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empty table. Okay, that there's no people to watch. It's like pointless to go on.
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Yeah. No one's going to see me. Finally, Stuart looks at me and goes like this. I'm sorry. And then they come in like 12
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people. Jim Downey. Oh, the whole bunch of them come in talking and I'm like, this is [ __ ] hell.
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David is in the group. I saw him do this. Oh. Oh, this guy, come here. Sit down. He made them all sit down
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and said, "Yeah, watch him. Watch this guy." He settled this table down and he made them watch
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me. And I didn't get the job, but the next day, Jim Downey called Robert Smiggle
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and said, "I'm not going to hire this guy, but you should." And he gave me the I got the other last train going, which
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was Conan. Oh, it did work out something. Yeah. So, I appreciate it. Thank you.