Stephen Colbert

And I was very much cross currents.

That's where we would, I did a cross currents.

Yeah.

And, um, and I was like, no, man, I do.

And then I went there and I saw the show and I went, Oh, everybody hears cares just as much as anybody else.

They just happened to be sold out every night.

And there's liquor.

Right.

Like I kind of like this.

And then I took classes and I didn't know Steve.

Steve had gotten there a year, year and a half ahead of me, something like that.

He was a little bit ahead of me in that.

you might call it process or like kind of rep system there.

And, uh, and I didn't know him at all.

A year later, a year after I started working there, I was invited to audition and I auditioned and I got into the national touring company, which was like a red letter day in my career.

I got into the tour co and, uh,

I think I got hired like on a Thursday.

And then like on Saturday, they said, can you go in at Northwest?

Because there used to be the theater at Northwest.

And I went, yeah, sure.