1991: I'm entering my third year of college and there is some "college" themed thing down at the old Convention Center out in West Philadelphia that I was encouraged to attend by some loser handing out leaflets on Temple's campus. The big draw was some cover band or some old hair metal band or something, but what I noticed was that Jon Stewart was going to do some stand up on the main stage and I was really into stand up at the time. (One Night Stand on HBO was my shiznitch!) Anyway, I was there to see Jon. That's it. I was lucky enough to be standing in the right place at the right time and what do you know I wound up standing 3 feet from him before he was scheduled to hit the stage. He was making time with a couple of young college cuties and I walked up to him all long haired and retarded looking and said the following to him: "you must be swimming in pussy!" If you recall Jon had just been given a show on MTV that was to rival Johnny Carson and Arsenio Hall. Needless to say, Jon said "I wish!" We chatted a bit, I slid him a Bloodhound Gang demo (I figured that while I was down there in College Kid Heaven, I should hand out some demos) and wished him the best.
My point of this story? I just watched Jon Stewart interview Senator John Kerry on the Daily Show tonight. Stewart lands Kerry over all the major shows. It's fucking amazing! Jon is and always was a funny motherfucker. And now that he is doing extremely well (expanding 18-34 year old audience, new baby, new book, etc.), I'm thrilled that I can say I knew him when he was a nobody and he was a great guy.
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Did I ever tell you my second cousin is married to him?
Really Starlene? That's cool as hell.
yea really although I havent met him- gotta try and get Dude to hook it up!
Skip, have Starlene get an email address for an interview. And for God's sake call me
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