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Distinctive Features Big nose, big green hair, loud, baggy clothes, superfluous nipple
Humble Beginning As a street mime in Tupelo, Mississippi
Medical File Had a near-fatal on-the-air heart attack in 1986, triple bypass surgery and pacemaker recipient, once went in for plastic surgery to change his identity and ended up with a boob job
Professional Highlights Played FDR on stage and could not remember to stay in the wheelchair, almost knighted by Queen Elizabeth, his show was condemned by parents and educators for simple-minded TV mayhem
Charitable Acts Led celebrity recording for a boy stuck in a well
Autobiography One critic said it was "self-serving" and "filled with glaring omissions"
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