ITL235: The Wild Story of My Career: Touring With Joan Rivers and Cher (Pt. 2 of 3)

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, I'm continuing to talk about the events that have shaped my career and how I learned to be willing and ready to pivot.

I wasn't clear on my direction when I started—I had no clue this was in the cards for me.

I was willing to endure some things I thought were useless or miserable and look for what I could learn from them.
There are things that happened to me 40 years ago that I can now use as stories to help other people.

I never thought that living under the pier would be anything good. I was just trying to endure and get out of there.

Normally, people don't want to be under pressure. But I can show you evidence over and over that peoples' best work happens under pressure.
The proper perspective trumps almost everything.

I was able to tour with Joan Rivers for two years.

Opening acts normally don't get paid much anywhere—but the huge benefit is the exposure.
I learned how to treat an opening act from Joan.
Joan's manager also managed Cher. So I got the opportunity to work with her as well.

Tune in to hear about:

My experience touring with Joan and the extreme generosity she showed me.
The night Howard Stern watched me perform.

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:12.9	Hi, and welcome to End the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm your host, David Loy. And with me once again
0:18.2	is Andy Andrews. Yes, I am. I am here.
0:22.3	We were picking up where we left off last week, which is talking about the many different parts of your career.
0:29.1	What we laughingly refer to as my career.
0:32.0	We had a great question come in from Paul, who saw you a long time ago, 30 years ago, he said, as a comedian, and then was
0:39.3	recently given one of your books. And he said, apparently, you write and speak now as well.
0:45.8	But he was looking for the details. Fill in the gap. What have you been doing for the last 30 years?
0:50.6	So real quick, let me...
0:51.8	Probably wasn't looking for this many details.
0:53.5	I was kidding. He probably wasn't expecting him multiple, multiple episodes of content.
0:59.4	But briefly, from last week, we covered your infamous Pizza Hut appearance, where we covered
1:06.9	your first paid gig where you were fired.
1:10.1	Fired halfway through it.
1:11.4	Yep, fired.
1:12.2	We covered cruise ships.
1:14.5	Not that I'm bitter about it.
1:16.0	Not that you're bitter 35, 40 years later.
1:21.1	We covered cruise ships briefly.
1:23.9	We started to touch on colleges, and then you gave us a couple of teasers for this week
1:28.6	some stories you want to tell about both Joan Rivers and Cher.
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