I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, ‘Sir, I’m getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I’m going to suck your neck,’ or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, ‘I want to live like Clint Eastwood.’ Did I know at that time Clint Eastwood, to him, Heaven was a truck, a dog, and a picnic basket for food or something?
The thing I love about Vegas is that it’s a melting pot. It’s like working Ellis Island.
I was a mother’s boy.
Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
I was always the guy – out of insecurities, I was always making fun, even as a kid.
My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head.
In the 45 years I’ve worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don’t even have a hunting license.
The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it’s not working. I did a study on this, you know.
No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to you.
I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew eventually I’d have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
Johnny Carson was a big influence on me – all of those shows I did with him over the years, like, 100 of them, they made a bit of a name for me at the time, so that part of my life was very good.
An ‘insult comic’ is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don’t tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.
I still have drive, but everything is relative.
Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
I told jokes badly.
When I was a younger guy doing comedy, it was a big struggle. Promoters canceled me out of clubs left and right when I called somebody a dummy or a yo-yo. Then they realized I was different.
I don’t practice or write stuff down – everything I do onstage was just made up before I went on.
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