Biography

Provides the voice for "Red" on the M&M commercials.

His father was an abusive alcoholic. According to Billy, his father tried to kill him 15 times.

Due to his role on Futurama (1999), he has portrayed President Richard Nixon more than any other actor.

He was addicted to alcohol and drugs in his early 20's. He went to Rehab and has been sober for over 30 years.

Did not start his career in radio and voice acting until he was 30 years old.

[on working on Howard Stern's radio show] It was exciting, because there was nothing like it. When I came around, he was starting to get played in other cities on other stations. He was syndicating. And this show was like-when that show came to town, all the other radio stations had to duck and cover, because they couldn't go where he was going. He built that up; he learned how to dance right up close to the line. So close that it's like, "Whoa!" But that's very masterful, to be able to do that. Now there's so many watered-down versions of his show, and his humor, and the vernacular from the show. Other stations, it's commonplace to talk like he did. He kind of taught everybody how to talk, brash. He would just Tourette out his thoughts, and I thought that was the greatest thing in the world.

As long as I can apply my craft, I'm happy.

It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.