Craig Robinson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I was reading The New Yorker.
And there was an ad for the Algonquin Hotel, which all the witty people would gather and exchange.
And I thought, well, that's interesting.
So it was raining, and I love rain when it's good, not torrential.
And I walked with my cardboard suitcase to the Algonquin, checked in, $9 a day.
I thought for a week, $9 a day.
I thought, oh, my God.
Anyway.
But you're loaded.
Oh, yeah.
Well, I had left maybe about $500 because of the plane.
Uh-huh.
So I got up to the room and I thought, what am I going to do?
I had one phone number.
It was from a girl who had been in the South Pacific scene.
She was a year ahead of me.
And she wrote, everybody said, I'm in New York.
So if you're ever here, give me a call.
So I called her that morning.
And I said, it's Carol Burnett.