JAKE FOGELNEST

FOGELNEST: One night, Michael Stipe was hanging out at McManus with me, Horatio [Sanz], and Jimmy Fallon, and Horatio pretended to have a heart attack, very convincingly. Everybody knows this is just some asshole ­McManus bit, but Michael Stipe had no idea. He was mortified. It wasn’t always fun for people who weren’t in the theater. 

SANZ: I don’t mean to sound like Sid Vicious or anything, but there are a lot of those nights I don’t remember. I do remember, one night, I threw a stool at this jukebox. Kurt Cobain was playing, and I thought that he would like that. Afterward, I called [the bar] very sheepishly and was like, “Sorry. I want to pay for that jukebox.” And the owner said, “Eh, don’t worry about it.” We pledged our undying support of his bar for life. I was given a key eventually.

[New York Magazine]

dunford:

I was a comedian once.

I mean, I wasn’t much of one. I did a few bouts of stand-up and a lot of sketch and improv, but I knew pretty early on that my time in comedy was not going to evolve into a career. I didn’t have the talent, drive, or dedication that many of my friends did.

However, I did…

Thank you for this, Dan Dunford. You are a wonderful man.