00:00When I was five, I was fired because I kept waving at my mother behind the TV cameras.
00:05When I was recording music on TV, I was singing.
00:08But I started doing comedy when I was 14, and I'm still doing it.
00:11So it's been 40 years, so yes.
00:13So show business, did you say five years old?
00:16Were you, like, actually getting paid?
00:18Well, I got fired, so I must have gotten paid something.
00:21Yeah.
00:21You know, it was a vocal children's group, and we were on a television show called Asia Now.
00:27Okay.
00:27In San Francisco.
00:28And, yeah, I kept waving to my mom behind the camera, and I was not reliable.
00:32As a child star, you can't wave at your mom if you're a child star.
00:35So it wasn't appropriate.
00:36So I opted instead to be a teen star.
00:39Wow.
00:40Well, do you think that was your first job?
00:42Was that your very first paying gig of your life?
00:45Yes.
00:46Okay.
00:46As a five-year-old, yeah.
00:47As a five-year-old, because I did see something interesting.
00:50As a 15-year-old, you were a phone sex operator.
00:53I thought that was fun.
00:54Yes.
00:55Was that it?
00:55Well, that was an interesting job, too, because it wasn't talking to people.
01:00It was, I was recording, like, very elaborate lines of dialogue to be played on a phone for
01:07sexual purposes, I guess.
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01:12I'll see you next time.
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