Bill Maher

But, I mean, I never understood how you musicians could remember so many... I mean, if you're doing a show that has 25 songs in it, how do you remember all those lyrics?

Oh, he fancied himself a rock star.

Yeah, well, he played louder than anybody else's guitar.

He was one of the few comedians who did sort of get into that rock star vibe.

I mean, Eddie Murphy did it for a minute, Andrew Dice Clay.

There have been a few who almost like a rock star.

There's the kind of excitement that music... Yeah, we kind of came to do this show with him and then...

His son was, you know, directing the orchestra.

That's what I saw.

The son was the director of the orchestra and Frank would humiliate him.

Okay, I saw him in 1995 at Radio City Music Hall.

I took my mother.

My parents were from New Jersey and saw Frank Sontra perform when he was starting out.

Wow.

Yeah, like in a little, late 30s, like 1939, in a place called the Rustic Cabin is the first place he sang at.

So it was very sentimental for my mother, and my father had just died.

So it was just like, you know, there was a lot of emotion in that room.

And Frank took it all away.

No, I'm kidding.

I mean, well, I mean, he just was such a dick.