I
told everybody at 10 years old I was gonna be on TV. One problem was that I had
a severe stuttering problem. One day we were given an assignment to write on a piece
of paper what we wanted to be when we grew up. I wrote I want to be on TV. The
teacher called me to the front of the class, she called me up there to humiliate
me and she said “Why would you write something like this on your paper? Who in
the school has ever been on TV? Who in your family, in this neighborhood, has
ever been on TV? Look at you, standing there, you can't even talk, how they
gonna put somebody like you on TV?
So
every Christmas I sent her a flat-screen TV.
Steve Harvey
