he'd jab you with this electric wand. >> jimmy: this was danny devito? [ laughter ] >> no! ble, danny's going to kick the [ bleep ] out of me. >> jimmy: did you go to those shows, as they called them, the freak shows at the time, the world's hairiest woman -- >> you couldn't help it, you walk down the street, they had the barkers. "see the inside, you've got to see this elephant lady, her mother was hit by an elephant, she's got a nose like this." because her mother was hit by an elephant? >> jimmy: wow, what a coincidence, you know? she got infected with the trunk virus or something, yeah. >> i'm telling you, to start life in fiction was to mean that my real life was already traded. you know? i didn't have one. i didn't have one yet, right? because we moved so many times. we moved like 12 times before i was in third grade. by the time we ended up in the bronx, i -- i was still looking back at that time because i went to kindergarten in coney island, i went to first grade in the bronx, second grade at another school in the bronx, third grade at another school in the bronx, w