I'd like to think my performance is today. I never try to - it's so, as you know, watching me, I have a beginning, middle and ending. But every night the show changes and I relate to an audience and I relate to the young people.

To this Rickles remarked "Stephen Colbert's a funny man but he's too young. W. Navy and served during World War II on the USS Cyrene as a seaman first class.

A frequent guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles but is best known as an insult comic.