I met a bunch of people and they said, "We're gonna do a show [Second City]." So we would buy the theater out and do a show, and we did that for five years and we ended up becoming popular. It was before sketch comedy was hipster-time - when you would hand out a flier, people would roll their eyes. Now it's kind of cool.
Simon HelbergWhat I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.
Simon Helberg