 I was always around show business people, and my favorite was a special breed of performer. That was the late-night after-hour mood singers. These were guys who would play a little intimate after-hours club and sing the songs that they'd like to do, which were always mood songs or saloon songs. The thing I loved about them most, they were so relaxed. They could talk for 20 minutes before they'd ever sing, and they'd always leave you hanging and do something. And I figured, wow, it'd be great to do comedy the way that they did their songs. So I combined the two into a character that I call the mood comic.