Here’s something we don’t see very often on TV — a comedian bursting into tears on television! But that’s what happened in a special birthday episode of the Steve Harvey Show. A man named Rich Liss in Orlando, Florida called Harvey via satellite to ask him one question: “Do you still love me baby?”
Harvey leaves us dangling in suspense for a few seconds before he explains. Rich Liss and his wife, Becky, were early supporters of Harvey back when he was a struggling young man with nothing in Cleveland, Ohio. Without the faith and financial backing of this couple, Steve Harvey probably would not be standing in front of a live audience on his own show. I was 26 years old, struggling. I didn’t have nothing and these people owned a furniture store in Cleveland. They took me in and gave me a contract with my little carpet cleaning company. When I became a comedian at 27, I didn’t have money to travel. They gave me an account at their travel agency and I ran up a bill that was $11,000 just traveling and trying to make it. Those people right there, they helped me out!
