You really do.

And to such a degree that first fall I mentioned the crowd yesterday you were coming on the show.

Place goes insane, as if I weren't enough on then.

That's sad.

Uh, but when you had a just ah, I guess, Ah, signing of some of the DVDs or a personal appearance?

Uh, one of the record stores in Midtown lines around the lot people 1000 people showed.

Yeah, it's incredible.

Do you find now that because of you know what you've achieved in your show business card that you get special treatment?

Do people treat you differently?

Now?

I had a really weird special treatment thing happened to me recently, had to go get my driver's license renewed and in California, have to take the written test again.

So I go to the D.

M V in Hollywood, and I'm thinking like I hope I get recognized.

I never really think that, but I thought like this would be a good place for that to happen because it's a long lot.

It's a long line, and you thought, sure, why not?

When I get out of there a little faster.

So I'm trying to judge this woman and see, like, Is she gonna recognize me?

And I'm kind of deciding.

No, she's not.

And then I see a guy right behind her Golec and run over and go like sir.

Come right this way, please.

And all of a sudden, I'm behind the counter where you never get to go on.

One more second later, he opens the door and I'm in the bowels of the d M.

V were like, you don't even see this area.

And he puts me in a little cubicle.

Gives me the test and a pencil, and I sit down and he goes, I'll be right back.

You'll be much more comfortable.

Here I go.

Great.

This is just what I share.

Mine is what you want.

Yeah, I sit down.

I studied for the test.

I had a little booklet.

I studied very hard.

I did the first question.

I did the second question.

The third question I could tell was a trick question.

So I decided I'm gonna come back to this.

Right.

So I go to the fourth, right?

I do the fifth, right?

The guy comes back and he's standing over top man.

He goes, You didn't do number three and I go, Yeah, I can tell.

It's a trick question.

I'm gonna come back to that.

He goes, See?

So I immediately panicked.

I immediately thought, like, you know, there's, like, a hidden camera somewhere.

It's like a sting.

Like it's gonna be some kind of you're gonna be caught cheating.

Yeah, celebrity perks like the D M.

V.

Some weird thing.

So I go, you know, I'm fine.

You know, I studied.

He goes, uh, a to the next.

When he gives me another answer, I go.

Great.

Okay, Look, I'm fine.

You know, I'm really getting terrified, so I do a couple more.

I hesitate for a minute.

He goes B.

So I finally finished.

I said, OK, fine, fine.

So he leaves.

I finished the test, he comes back, he grades it.

I did really well on it.

Theo hands me a piece of paper that has all the employees of that particular D M V office with a little box next to each name, and they send the paper around going and pee.

Wee Herman's here.

If you're interested in you chip, make a little check mark by your name, and he hands me this thing.

And there were 60 autographs to do with the D M V office.

Right address on it.

So I had to go home and sign, you know?

So it's sort of like that payment for helping you with the tests that you didn't need any help with.

Yeah, plus, I mean, I did it, Believe me, I did it.

I went home and signed him and sent him in the mail because I was afraid if I didn't, I'd, you know, be stopped somewhere and it would turn out my license was fake or something.

That's not my picture.

That's a chicken.

Yeah, well, I mean, I think you did the right thing.

I do to You did.

Now they're looking another word.

Yes, they are.

There.

I'm curious about.

You know, you've had such a unique career.

You create this character that consummate people's imagination and and and and and you're You're so good at what you do.

But do you ever think about what you would have done had you not been an actor if you'd gone a different way?

If he didn't go into acting.

What would you do?

This is gonna sound like I'm joking, but this is This is really what I thought I would wind up doing.

I grew up in Sarasota, Florida, which is the old winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers.

And I always thought I'd wind up in the circus.

That's what I thought I was.

Really?

What did you want to do in the circus?

Did you have a specific like, Did you see?

OK, this is I could do a lot of circus acts.

Like I could do trapeze.

I could do tight.

Rowe.

Um, See, I thought I knew you were gonna think.

Did you really?

Did you practice thing to do?

Would you tell one?

Seriously?

Going to circus camp?

Vicious circus camp.

A za child.

I went to circus camp about six weeks into the circus camp.

We put on a big show.

My parents came there, sitting in the bleachers and I run out.

I got on a little Speedo bathing suit.

Maybe 12.

I've got like, I get up on the balance beam on a balance beam.

Act fantastic.

Balance beam.

I wish you guys could have seen it.

And uh, I had, like, fire.

I had a ring like that, had fire around it, and I blindfold myself and skipped through the ring.

And I looked out.

My parents were like, I think it was then they knew.