Before there was Friends, actor David Schwimmer had plied his way some odd jobs.
Aside from being a rollerskating server at Chicago’s famed retro-style diner, the 58-year-old worked for his mother Arlene – a divorce lawyer – as a process server, he shared while appearing on Monday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“I would be the guy who would pop out of the bushes and serve you divorce papers,” Schwimmer told Colbert.
Schwimmer joked that as an 18-year-old at the time, getting tips about where to find people to serve them papers made him feel like he was James Bond. Alas, he admitted, “I am not James Bond.”
Schwimmer did have one memorable recall from the summer of 1984 when he revealed that he handed divorce papers to rocker Rod Stewart, fairly remarkably!
“Thank goodness I’ve never run into him since,” Schwimmer said this week. “I don’t even know if he knows. I don’t think he knows…”
Colbert chimed to joke that, well, “he knows now,” advising Schwimmer to “change your locks, man. He is vengeful!”
Schwimmer did not specify which of Stewart’s two divorces he served him papers for, but it was most likely for Stewart’s 1984 split from his first wife Alana Stewart, who he married in 1979.
Stewart was later married to model Rachel Hunter from 1990 to 2006, and has been wed to his third wife, Penny Lancaster, since 2007.
Schwimmer went on to find his footing as a successful actor,now starring in Disney+ series Goosebumps: The Vanishing, but will always be famous for playing Ross Geller on Friends for ten years.
