“I watch sports, all day,” he says. “I don’t like to leave the house, and if I’m on vacation, I don’t like to leave the hotel or resort. I’m like a hermit. Like Bigfoot.”
The Hamilton, Ohio native and his family now split time between the Tri-State and California, an arrangement he made to please his agents — and because his wife is from the Golden State and has a lot of family out west.
Coming back to Cincinnati is always special, though. And speaking of specials, “the show at the Taft this week will be a live taping,” he says. He’s reluctant to call it a “special,” per se, as he’s not sure where it will run or who he’ll sell it to.
“But I’ve got a lot of new material,” he says. “If you saw me at the Taft last year, I have a whole new hour.”
8:30 p.m. Saturday (Dec. 15). $28-$78. Taft Theatre, 317, E. Fifth St., Downtown, tafttheatre.org.
