Within months, he was standing in the Nickelodeon office,sporting ill-advised stubble, long hair, and earrings. After receiving an acting scholarship to a nearby college, he joined a band called Nine Pound Truck, but soon quit that, along with school. He’d grown up in rural Pennsylvania, playing guitar, writing songs, and jamming on David Bowie in a friend’s cow pasture. You walk into a job interview, fill out an application, and the next thing you know,you’re costarring on a hit show with a blue dog made of felt. You know how these hand-of-fate moments go. Then shows up for an audition at Nickelodeon. Lands voice-over gigs ?(“1-800-COLLECT,” Burns perkily recites), gets Law & Order role (“I was autistic and died”). Boy moves to New York to seek his fortune, couch-surfs, tries to break into acting. “ Pffft,” he says, shrugging, with mock mackadociousness. It was a magic little moment - a kindhearted breach in the space-time continuum - and we sit silent for a second, contemplating it. “‘Who’s Jonathan?’ The kids were, like, ‘Cool! Steve’s here!'” So Burns loped around, clowned with the youngsters, dispensed toys, and refused cash from the bewildered dad. “I was like, ‘Hey!'” His narrow face and big, dark eyes bloom into the fully dilated character beloved worldwide. “We just showed up with the toys and knocked on the door,” says Burns, a slight 30-year-old sipping a latte in an airy Brooklyn cafe. He met his date, changed clothes, and drove back to the party. Also Read The Spin Top 40: The Most Vital Artists in Music, 1997
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