Chris Distefano
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Quit that job and go do comedy, even though I had no path at the time to comedy.
Of course.
And I just, as always, chose my dad.
Yes.
The man who caused me and my mom to get very familiar with the Amtrak schedule out of Penn Station in 1989.
And that's what I, I remember I chose that.
And dude, for like the first week, I had like, I remember I had like $240 in my bank account.
And I remember like I had quit, right?
And my dad was like, you can stay with me, like live in my basement.
Don't tell your mother that you quit.
And I didn't.
And then, yeah.
And I remember-
that they, for like a week, maybe two weeks, like no money, like what am I gonna do here?
I was trying to get any gig I could.
And then MTV came and gave me like an overall deal, which basically like was my physical therapy salary, maybe even more to like do comedy.
But then I was an MTV, I belonged to MTV.
100%.
Yeah.
And then they started putting me on every MTV show because they were just paying for me.