‘My mother made me get a job at, like, Wienerschnitzel,’ Cannon says of his first job. By Jocelyn Vena Nick Cannon Photo: MTV News Nick Cannon is doing just fine for himself. He’s a radio host, actor, TV personality, is married to Mariah Carey and he also happens to be a TV exec. But there was a time when money didn’t come easily to him: He had to get a job during in high school to help his family out. It’s just too bad he was too focused on being an entertainer to keep it for very long … “When I was 17, we weren’t doing that well financially,” Cannon, who now has a very good work ethic, says in this week’s episode of “When I Was 17” (airing Saturday at 11 a.m. ET), which also features Aubrey O’Day and Donald Trump . “And my mother, at the time, was working extremely hard. She was going to school. She had a couple of jobs.” So in order to take off some of the pressure off Mama Cannon, she asked her son to pitch in. And, well, he tried … “My mother made me get a job at, like, Wienerschnitzel,” he recalls in the episode. “[It was a job] just to kind of help ends meet. I ended up getting fired.” Why was Cannon fired? Well, he was practicing for his future career. “I ended up getting fired because I was playing on the intercom system at the drive-thru, telling jokes,” he explains. “That’s when I knew I wanted to be a stand-up comic.” “When I Was 17” — this week featuring Donald Trump, Nick Cannon and Aubrey O’Day — airs Saturday at 11 a.m. on MTV. Related Photos When I Was 17 | Ep. 7 | Celebrity Photo Flashback Related Artists Nick Cannon
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Nick Cannon Recalls Being A Drive-Thru Comic On ‘When I Was 17’
