Stephen Colbert
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We had no idea what we were doing.
And we thought that the answer was, what if we just worked 24 hours a day?
Wouldn't that make things funnier?
And it made things weirder because you would fall into a chemo psychosis.
And I go back and I watch those sketches.
I mean, I worked there in the box office because I didn't have any job.
I had gone, I'd done a gig overseas.
And then I came back with no money.
I mean, literally, I was sleeping on a friend's floor.
And my friend, Ann Libera said, she was the box office manager.
And she said, you can answer phones here.
like two days a week if you need like basic cash.
So I started answering phones and then I found out that you could take classes for free
if you worked there, even if you're like part-time like I was.
And so I said, well, I mean, I never imagined that I would be at second city.