After meeting with the boss, the head salesperson mustered the troops.
"People," she said, "I've just been informed that we're going to be having a fire sale."
"A fire sale?" spoke up one agent. "But we sell insurance."
"I said a fire sale, and I meant it," she replied coldly. "Anyone who doesn't make a sale gets fired."
Jerry Seinfeld's first sitcom wasn't Seinfeld. He played the governor's speechwriter on three episodes of Benson (he was fired from the job).
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
~Lily Tomlin