*Steve Harvey has revealed that his career in radio almost didn’t happen.
“A lot of people ask how did I go from radio to TV. Well, radio almost didn’t happen ?,” Harvey posted on Twitter last week accompanying an online segment “Rolling with Steve Harvey.”
The comic legend recalled the time he was doing a stand-up concert in Chicago in 1994 when he was asked to fill in for famed WGCI radio personality Doug Banks, Atlanta Black Star reports.
“I was supposed to just be a guest. I got there early, he got sick, and they said, ‘Well, go on in and announce your show.’ Then, I told a couple jokes,” Harvey said. “And then the phone rang … me and the caller had some banter [on-air]. Went to a commercial break, general manager of the station came in and said, ‘Hey, have you done radio before?’ I said, ‘Yeah, yeah. All the time.’ Never done s–t before.”
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— Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) November 20, 2019
Harvey was then asked to sit in for the rest of the morning. The following day when the GM asked if he ever considered a career in radio, Harvey replied NO.
“I said, ‘How much does it pay?’ And then he told me and then I said, ‘Nah, I don’t want to do radio, man. I make a lot of money out here,’” Harvey recalled.
He and the GM then talked about how much it would take to make him join the team, but when Harvey quoted his price, the GM made clear that wasn’t in the budget. However, before Harvey could exit the building, he was called back to the office.
“[The general manager] says, ‘My boss said they’ll pay you that much money.’ I said, ‘Cool, I’ll do radio tomorrow,’” Harvey said. “That was my first radio gig at WGCI Chicago.”
And the rest, as they say… is history.
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