Chris Rock may have skipped college, but he apparently got the Hollywood equivalent - and it came with Adam Sandler, Chris Farley and plenty of McDonald's runs. Looking back at his early career in a Variety interview, Rock reflected on joining Saturday Night Live in 1990 at 25, years after Eddie Murphy discovered him as a teenager. For Rock, those SNL years weren't just another job. They were his education.
"Chris Farley and me and Adam [Sandler] and David Spade shared an office," he remembered fondly. "We would go, 'Oh, let's make a McDonald's run.' 'Carolyn Bessette's here tonight! You gonna talk to her?' 'No, you talk to her.' Then she came in with JFK. 'Oh, that's what she's going for.' It was a magical time."
"All you remember are the friendships," he continued. "I didn't go to college, but those would have been the years I was in college." Rock left SNL in 1993, but his relationship with creator Lorne Michaels clearly stuck. After appearing in a documentary, Rock joked that "it's the best doc ever where you don't learn one thing about the guy."
"The most interesting people in the world - who do not tell you about him. But I met Lorne Michaels and haven't been broke a day since. That is my guy," the 61-year-old said. And here's the wild part: Rock could have had another iconic sitcom role. Jason Alexander revealed that Rock was among those considered to play George Costanza on Seinfeld. Imagine that alternate timeline.