Of course, that stuff still takes up most of our lives now. We did a lot of improvisation involving sex and drugs. Kevin Costner and Barbi Benton were in my first Groundlings class, which should give you an idea of how long ago this all was.Ĭooper: Barbi! I haven’t heard her name in a long time! I did the Groundlings workshop for a year, where, again, you pay them. I found work right away as a comedian, and I also studied acting. (laughs) Anyway, I decided to give most of my money to the Comedy Store and The Improv. Saget: That’s what this is all about: giving. Saget: (laughs) Well, the Comedy Store had offered to pay me nothing for eight years! Chet Cooper, Bob Saget and Regina HallĬooper: So if someone is planning to follow in your footsteps, he or she should only go to grad school for three days. So I went back into comedy, performing at The Comedy Store and The Improv. I figured I’d already gotten my undergrad degree, anyway. And then at 21, I moved to Los Angeles to go to USC film school. I did a lot of filmmaking around that time, and I’d take the train into New York from Philadelphia, where I’d started winning radio contests as a stand-up comic.
Anyway, I went to Temple University film school and made an 11-minute documentary, called Through Adam’s Eyes, about someone to whom I’m very close who had reconstructive facial surgery. I realize “really bad student movie” is redundant.
Later I made 60 hours of really bad student movies. I started making eight-millimeter movies when I was nine. Saget: Oh, my career is very sordid and hard to pin down. Cooper: How did you find your way into the entertainment business?