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| Distinctive features: | Big nose; big red hair; loud, baggy clothes; superfluous nipple. |
| Humble beginning: | As a street mime in Tupelo, Mississippi. |
| Medical file: | Had a near-fatal on-the-air heart attack in 1986; triple bypass surgery and pacemaker recipient; once went in for plastic surgery to change his identity and ended up with a boob job. |
| Professional highlights: | Played FDR on stage and could not remember to stay in the wheelchair; almost knighted by Queen Elizabeth. |
| Charitable acts: | Led celebrity recording for a boy stuck in a well. |
| Autobiography: | One critic said it was "self-serving" and "filled with glaring omissions." |