David Schwimmer says he once served Rod Stewart with divorce papers

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Before “Friends,” David Schwimmer certainly had some odd jobs.

In addition to being a roller skate server at Chicago’s famous retro restaurant Ed DebevicsSchwimmer worked for his mother Arlene — a divorce attorney — as a process server, he shared while appearing on Monday’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”

“I’d be the guy that would pop out of the bushes and serve you divorce papers,” Schwimmer told Colbert with a laugh.

Schwimmer joked that as an 18-year-old at the time, getting tips on where to find people to serve them made him feel like he was James Bond.

Alas, he admitted, “I am not James Bond.”

But Schwimmer had a memorable serving, he said, going on to reveal that he served divorce papers to rock star Rod Stewart, of all people.

“Thank God I’ve never run into him since,” Schwimmer said this week. “I don’t even know if he knows. I don’t think he knows . . .”

Colbert chimed in to joke that “he knows now,” and greeted advised Schwimmer to “change your locks, man. He’s vengeful!”

Schwimmer did not specify which of Stewart’s two divorces he served him papers for, but if our math is math, it was most likely for Stewart’s 1984 split from his first wife Alana Stewart, whom he married in 1979. Stewart later became married to model Rachel Hunter from 1990 to 2006 and has been married to his third wife, Penny Lancaster, since 2007.

Fortunately, Schwimmer went on to find his footing as a successful actor in Hollywood. He currently stars in the Disney+ series “Goosebumps: The Vanishing,” but rose to fame playing lovable dorky paleontologist Ross Geller on “Friends” from 1994 to 2004.

Talk about a career pivot.