Interview · moment 15 of 24
Moving to New York and Living in a Dead Woman's Harlem Apartment
from Finger Blow Jobs · #13
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2 minGuest
Bonnie recounts cold-calling Caroline's Comedy Hour to get her first TV credit, moving to New York in the 90s, and living cheaply in a recently deceased woman's Harlem apartment.
- 30:37Tim called Caroline's Comedy Hour to ask if he could be on the TV show, reached the booker directly.
- 31:10The booker asked if Tim was cute over the phone, then put him on speakerphone with workmen in the office as an audition.
- 31:44When Tim first moved to New York in 1996, he lived in a huge one-bedroom apartment in Harlem for $500 a month.
- 32:01The apartment belonged to his manager's fiancée's grandmother, who had died a week before Tim moved in.
Caroline's Comedy HourHarlem