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Madonna: Madonna served customers at a local
Dunkin’ Donuts until she was fired for spraying customers
with jelly filling! Perhaps not so surprising.
•
Chelsea Handler: Back in the day, Chelsea waited
tables at Morton’s Steakhouse in California, slinging steaks
and baked potatoes.
•
Marisa Tomei: While taking acting classes and
auditioning for roles in New York, Marisa worked at
Brooklyn’s Tony Roma’s.
•
Mariah Carey: Apparently Mariah wasn’t very
successful in her waitress jobs in NYC at The Sports Bar
and The Boathouse Café – “she had a terrible attitude.”
Hmmmm...
•
Lady Gaga: Before her big break, Gaga (Stephanie
Germonatta) worked at the Cornelia Street Café waiting
tables to cover her rent.
•
Tom Cruise: Tom was once a hotel bellhop before
hitting it big in Hollywood.
•
Jennifer Aniston: Jennifer really enjoyed being a
waitress while awaiting her break into show biz. She sup-
ported herself waiting tables until she could realize her big
dream.
2.
These famous folks
honed some skills as
bartenders:
•
Ellen Pompeo: The star of Grey’s Anatomy
was discovered mixing drinks at a restaurant in New
York.
•
Dave Mathews: Before selling over 30 mil-
lion records, Dave was a bartender at Miller’s in
Charlottesville, VA. While there, he was encouraged to
write music and perform by his friend, Ross Hoffman,
who later became the band’s first manager.
•
Ellen DeGeneres: Ellen supported herself as
a bartender before she tried her hand at stand-up. At
a graduation ceremony for bartenders at the National
Bartender School in Sherman Oaks, Calif., she offered
this tip to the recent grads: “one of the toughest deci-
sions a customer can ever make is whether to have
their ‘Margarita’ on the rocks or blended” and that
“vermouth is like a cheap perfume: A little goes a long
way.” Ha!
•
Jon Stewart: Jon honed his wit stopping bar
fights and cleaning up vomit at the New Jersey punk
venue City Gardens.
•
Sandra Bullock: After she moved to New
York, she took a job bartending and picked up an
unexpected skill: she learned to mimic a wide variety
of accents serving customers from all over the world.
ed mixing drinks at a restaurant in New York.
3.
Famous Disney Resort
Employees:
•
Steve Martin: Steve Martin picked up some spe-
cial skills at Disney: he became an accomplished magician
while working at the Fantasyland Magic Shop. He also
learned to play banjo from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s
John McEuen, who was also working at the park at the
time.
•
Robin Williams: Robin Williams was a tour guide
on the Jungle Cruise before he became the voice of the
“genie” in Aladdin with Disney later in his career.
•
Michelle Pfeiffer: Michele played Alice in
Wonderland in the Main Street Electrical Parade.
•
Richard Carpenter: Richard Carpenter of the The
Carpenters worked at Disney playing piano on the famous
“Main Street.”
•
Alyson Reed: Alyson Reed of “high School
Musical” fame got her start playing Alice in Wonderland at
Disneyland.
•
Wayne Brady: Comedian Wayne Brady played
Tigger at Walt Disney World.
•
Kevin Costner: Kevin met his first wife, Cindy
Silva (she was Snow White) while working as a tour guide
at Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise.
•
Kevin Richardson: The former Backstreet Boy
played Aladdin and one of the Ninja Turtles during his time
at Disneyland.
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