Picking up from yesterday –
Soon after Nightly, I got to work on Dancing with the Stars while they were in New York. That was awesome. And as you can see, you have posts all about that from real-time.
Then I worked on Greatest Ever, which was quite lovely. Still friends with a few cast members/writers. My boss couldn’t have been nicer to me.
The show was funny. The money was good ($3,500/week). The environment was SO relaxed. 5 out of 5 star experience, no question.
Then I got The Daily Show, which has been covered at length in here. I don’t know how much I truly covered the ‘downfall’ of it all. [I actually kind of covered this in a post around the time of my birthday.]
But yeah, we had that whole money issue toward the beginning of it. And from someone I’d talked to, they said their hypothesis as to why The Daily Show was so annoyed that I was annoyed at them asking me to take so much less money was because most people who worked there were dying for stability because it’s so hard to get stability in New York.
But I come from California. So, I just didn’t care that much.
Anyway, eeeeeverything was a fight after that. It was just old working there (which was sad because I loved it so much before that).
I think I both started isolating myself, and I felt like they were isolating me. And it just got worse and things got torn up. And I ended up working a union job downtown instead, which I will talk about the day after tomorrow!
(And tomorrow I’ll talk about another thing that was a big example of why I was ultimately happier to not be at The Daily Show.)