Turn Back Moments Define Who You Are

- When I got into comedy at 27 I had a turn back moment man it was the day I was gonna quit 'cause I had enough man I was living in this car for three years man I ain't got no money and I was gonna call my mom and dad and ask them could I come home and just stay in the attic for about four months till I find a job. My father told me you can't come back home, once you leave my daddy's house you gotta figure that (beep) out. So I knew it was gonna be hard but they had put an answering machine in the attic for me. You know back in the day you had an answering machine you could call it, punch a code in and you could hear your messages. And so, I was bathing in a hotel in Pensacola Florida and the way I use to bath was I use to go to hotels that had those bathroom doors that went floor to ceiling. I would go to real fancy like Ritz Carlton's and stuff like that 'cause they had linen towels wrapped up in a basket and I would take a bunch of 'em in there, run hot water on them and take 'em in the stall and shut the door and I'd my bag and soap up. Then I would wait till the coast was clear and I'd run out and get a bunch of more rags and soak them up and come out and wipe it off. Then I stand there and dry put my clothes back on, that's how I bathed every other day man. And so I was in there one time and they had a convention in town and when I got all the stuff I soaped up this convention let out and men was just coming in the bathroom and I couldn't go out. So I couldn't get the soap off. So I let the toilet seat down and I'm sitting there man I just started cryin'. I said man I can't take this (beep) no more, I'm fittin' to quit Imma go call my daddy and just ask him can come home man I can't do this no more. So before I called him I called the answering machine and I got a message and it said Steve Harvey this is Chuck Sutton from Showtime at the Apollo we saw a tape of you if you would come to New York Sunday night, this was a Thursday, come Sunday night we gonna put you on t.v. Showtime at the Apollo. Put me on t.v. that was my dream but I had a problem, I had 25 dollars and I couldn't get to New York. How was I gonna get to New York with 25 dollars so I said (beep) man I went back in my car and I'm cryin' again I said man God, I finally get a shot to get on t.v. And I can't even go. I said how could you do this to me and I'm 30 something now man I've been waiting my whole life and you get me here. So I said man lemme call this machine back and just see if he said this Sunday. And I call it back and it said Steve this is Chuck Sutton from Showtime at the Apollo we saw a tape, we have an opening for you Sunday if you can get here gimme a call let me know we love to put you on t.v. I said (beep). So I got ready to hang up and I heard boop you have another message and I punch in the code and the message said Steve Harvey this is Tom Sobel from the Comedy Caravan I don't know where you are now but I have a gig available for you in Jacksonville Florida to pay you 150 dollars Friday night if you can make the gig let me know. I'm in Pensacola. So I call Tom Sobel. He sends me to this gig to make 150 dollars. I go the next night I make the 150 dollars but I was so funny the club owner said If you stay the next night I'll pay you another 150 dollars I got 300 dollars. I called Chuck Sutton back at the Apollo and said hey man I just got this message if you still got room for me in New York I'll do it. He said yeah, come on. So I went to Eastern airline bought a round trip ticket for 99 dollars from Jacksonville Florida to New York performed on Showtime at the Apollo wrote the joke that made me famous Mike Tyson hit this fighter Mitch Green in the eye and his eye start talking and I wrote that (beep) on the way to New York. Got a standing ovation on the Apollo. I have been on television ever since that night right there. (clapping)

Channel: The Official Steve Harvey

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Id: Z4D8-g292M8

Length: 4min 25sec (265 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 18 2019