Nothing in life comes easily. Before getting their big breaks, both Whoopi Goldberg and Danny DeVito worked at a mortuary. They didn’t work together or at the same company but they do share the same experience of working with those that are no longer with us.

Goldberg told watchers of The View that she was responsible for putting makeup on dead people. This was done to get them ready for a wake or a funeral. She said that her boss told her “There’s nothing to be scared of.” She was right to a certain point, it’s not like they were going to move and mess up her makeup job. Goldberg went on to win several awards for her work in movies and television.

DeVito was in charge of styling the hair of the dead people to prepare them for their upcoming funeral. But you can imagine he probably didn’t have to pay a lot of attention to the back of their head! DeVito gained fame by playing the role of Louie De Palma on the old television hit Taxi and he turned that into a long successful career in both movies and on television.