In 1984, Whoopi Goldberg was featured in one of her first televised interviews on Late Night with David Letterman. The two comedians started their conversation off by talking about Goldberg’s one-woman Broadway act, The Spook Show, and the different characters she played in it. Within a few minutes, they switched gears and discussed what Goldberg was doing before she got into show business. Letterman brought up the fact that Goldberg was once a cosmetologist, which she quickly confirmed, adding one minor detail that he’d left out: The type of cosmetology she used to engage in took place in a mortuary.

“It’s a lot of fun,” Goldberg said of her previous profession. When Letterman asked her if it was the job that she’d wanted, she responded, “Well, yeah. It’s like playing with dolls, you kno

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