Whoopi Goldberg has at all times been after the laughs.
Certainly, the comic (actual identify Caryn Johnson) just lately shared that her unique stage identify stemmed from a well-liked gag reward.
“Whoopi first, and I used to be whoopie cushion,” she divulged to Seth Meyers on the July 11 episode of Late Evening. “After which I used to be Whoopi Cushión.”
After developing with the identify in her 30s, The View cohost famous, it was her mom Emma Harris who satisfied her to vary “Cushion” to “Goldberg.”
“She stated, ‘You might be diminishing your talents,’” Whoopi recalled. “‘If you happen to name your self by Whoopi Cushion, persons are probably not going to understand what you are able to do.’ And I stated, ‘Oh actually? Oh, nice namer of the star?’ And he or she stated, ‘Sure.’”
As for the place her mom obtained the identify Goldberg? “She stated, ‘Nicely, there’s quite a lot of household names, we’ve obtained quite a lot of totally different folks in our household, I like Goldberg,’” Whoopi defined. “And I stated, ‘Okay effectively we’ll attempt it.’ Nicely?”
