1984. His first appearance on the Tonight Show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRe1CeGe7gThe everyman (heavy sized), self-depreciating humor to hide the pain of living with an alcoholic father and a wonderful mother who absorbed the brunt of the abuse. "Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone."
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Rest well, sir. You did make us laugh a while.
