Before he broke out in stand-up, on “Saturday Night Live” and in movies like “Tommy Boy” and “Black Sheep,” David Spade attempted to join the ranks of Aspen ski bums.
When Spade was in high school, his older brother and two friends did a few winter tours of duty working on the mountains and in a ski shop downtown. When Spade graduated in 1982, he attempted to follow them and live the dream in Aspen.
It didn’t go so well, he recalled in a phone interview this week.
He and a friend tried to hitchhike here from San Diego, failed, called Dial-a-Ride (“it was like the Uber of its time”) and eventually rolled into town.
The pair briefly got a gig installing sprinklers, lost that job, then tried to scrape together some cash as strippers through the Strip-O-Gram service.
“Obviously, this was back when I was more ripped,” Spade said. “He was actually ripped. So I was just like, ‘Well, I’ll just tag along.’ That didn’t work, shockingly, so we had to go home.”
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