ROLE: Actor
STORY: My Assistant Athletic Director at the time Joe Giansante called me while I was on Winter Break. He said, Mikey… Jimmy Fallon just called and would like for you to be on the show. ‘Say no more!’ I said.
I flew to New York for the first time, and walked into 30 Rockerfeller Plaza. Went up to the Studio 6B where I’d have a dressing room next to DJ Pauly D and Kevin Spacey. I watched a live show (we were taping after), the show wrapped, and I was waiting in my green room for Jimmy. He came in, head to toe in Oregon Ducks gear ‘Mikey! Thank you so much for making it it means so much you’re here right now.’ ‘Um Absolutely Jimmy Fallon.’
He brought me to the stage of the show, where we the crew was setting up for their shot. Jimmy sat on his guest’s couches with me, and him and I talked for 2 hours about life, pursuit of happiness, and how to get to SNL. It was a bit surreal, but in the same light, it wasn’t Jimmy was everything I thought he’d be, and he gave me some life advice I still carry with me to this day.
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