He said on his own show during the early Iraq war days that he had done straight talk for over 20 years or such before starting the comedy bit. He did 6 hours a night of straight talk during the 1st weeks of the war, and was great. His act is pretty amazing, though. Even more amazing is the number of callers that are so clueless that they don't know it's him talking to himself doing another voice. He must have some kind of switch to flip from phone to mic to get the caller sound. Pretty cool. Think he's on KTRB now.