Your favorite stories of people becoming famous in one day

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Letterman made Chris Elliott famous as The Guy Under The Seats.

Was Tom Arnold anybody at all until he married Roseanne?

 

Never heard of either of them, or the shows.

 

First several seasons of Orphan Black on Amazon Prime are very, very good.

 

Orphan Black is an awesome show.

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is very hit-or-miss, but when it’s on, it’s really good.

 

I was born two hours before that was broadcast ... June 28, 1976.

Sir Nicholas Winton (that is a story I like to read from time to time, just to refresh myself)
The American tourist who was in the background of the Abbey Road album cover
Hazel Frederick, the woman who watched Mary Tyler Moore throw her hat at the end of the opening credits (I remember the AP ran an obit on Hazel)
Clara Peller ("Where's the beef?")

 

Larry Fortensky, the guy Elizabeth Taylor met in rehab and married.

 

This thread almost instantly turned into "People who eventually became more famous than they had been before."

 

Actually, Brett Favre does fit the criteria. He was an option quarterback playing for his dad in high school, averaging about six passes a game, if that. He got one D-1 offer, showed up for camp as a freshman at Southern Miss in 1987 as a complete unknown, got thrown into a game in the second half against Tulane, when Southern was getting their butts whipped, because, why not, engineered a big comeback victory and by the end of the day, he was a star in the making.