It's not often that a performer gets a place to respond to his critics after they have panned his latest movie. So I guess I won't abuse the privilege here, and, instead, I'll take this opportunity to admit that I have looked a lot younger than many of the characters I'm playing in the movies, but when you are in show business you have got to keep working, even if you don't look old enough to be convincing. Living in California is expensive, and even more expensive when your fellow Californians find out you have made money making a movie. I mean the stuff just disappears, and then critics descend like vultures. But there is one script I wish somebody would send me, "The Buddy Hackett Story". Then I could play a baby faced comic while actually being one. Of course, I'd have to put on a little weight and grow a bigger nose, but people are really funnier that way.

Buddy was visiting the set of "The Aviator" one day, a movie where I played the role of Howard Hughes, but I didn't look a bit like him. So Buddy asked, "Why didn't Howard Hughes appear in a movie about himself rather than hiring other people to do all the work for him." I said to him,"It's not so difficult for me. I like show business.", and got this reply. "What's to like about it?", quipped Buddy "When the curtain comes down, and the stage lights go out, you have to be a normal person again."

Here's the reviews.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27092665/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27087625
Here's The Firesign Theatre page at laugh.com, and while you're there, look up Buddy Hackett.http://www.laugh.com/main_pages/comicpage.asp?cid=292