Howard Stern - fired from one of his first radio gigs
Bill Watterson - fired from his first job his first newspaper job - and went on to create Calvin and Hobbes
Ozzy Osourne - fired from Black Sabbath
Steve Jobs - I guess this might be stretching the definition of early, but one of the most famous (or infamous) firings I can think of.
Didn’t slow them down one bit it seems. Any others you can think of?
Lemmy?
Fired from Hawkwind after a drugs arrest, immediately went on to found Motörhead.
(Fun fact: Motörhead was originally named ‘Bastard’ 
)
Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica early on, and went on to found Megadeth.
I totally forgot about Dave Mustane; and I saw *The End of Western Civilization *twice:smack:
Colonel Sanders seems to have been fired repeatedly in his early career. Mainly for brawling. He gave up law after beating up his own client in the middle of the court room! Maybe one of the secret spices is derived from the blood of his enemies.
Brad Pitt was supposedly fired from a job as a movie extra, early in his career. No cite, sorry, it may just be an urban legend among disgruntled extras.
I thought he was supposedly fired from his job wearing a chicken suit for El Pollo Loco?
Lisa Kudrow was originally cast as Roz Doyle on Frasier, but was fired while the first episode was being filmed.
Because she couldn’t project Roz’s shameless sexuality.
Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds were fired by their studio in the same meeting.
Ray Romano was cast as the station technician on NewsRadio - the role that eventually went to Joe Rogan - and was fired just days before they shot the pilot.
Glenn Ford was originally cast as Clay Morrow in Sons of Anarchy, and a substantial part of the pilot shot before he was replaced by Hellboy. I’ve never heard a good reason except that Perlman was the first choice and became available.
I heard that Hitler fellow bombed out of art school.
Hey man, pay attention, this thread is about people who were fired
Scott Glenn. That is all.
Madonna said she was fired from Dunkin’ Donuts, although the reason she gave for being canned - squirting jelly on the customers - sounds kind of dubious to me.
Jerry Seinfeld was fired from the sitcom Benson after three episodes.
Gilbert Gottfried was one of a number of cast members fired from Saturday Night Live during the 1980-81 season.
Robert Redford was fired after being found sleeping in an oil tank instead of cleaning it and then fooling around on a forklift.
Rush Limbaugh was fired from his first radio job in the 70’s and told he’d never make it as on air talent.
Never got Gilbert Gotttfried’s humor. Annoying as hell, but not funny, at least to me.
They specified talent.
Which explains the slow decline of the chain. He’s dead and very very few of his enemies remain.
This year’s Super Bowl featured two coaches who’d been fired from previous NFL jobs.
The Jets and the Patriots had both fired Pete Carroll. The Cleveland Browns had fired Bill Belichick.