Whats the band like?
These guys are some of the best musicians you’ve ever seen, so why they are backing me, no one understands. That’s one of the things—you’ll have a room where everyone is scratching their heads so much, wondering why these guys are playing with me, that the floor is covered in dandruff flakes! It looks like some sort of snowstorm has come in through the ceiling. It’s a very strange phenomenon, but it’s worth the price of admission just to see that. So why the change to the country-western music? We’ve done more comedy albums than Redd Foxx. Except, who’s that hippie drug guy… George Carlin. He really needs to take a bath—but that’s a whole other thing. Besides him, there aren’t many comedians who have been making records as long as I have. So we wanted to do something different, and we looked at some of the great records that have been made in the past, by Telly Savalas who played Kojak, by William Shatner who played Captain Kirk in the Priceline ads, and of course, Leonard Nimoy. And
