“I was in there saving your canary!”

This is what comedic genius and American icon Don Rickles told Craig Ferguson in the following clip from 2013 (when Ferguson had a late night show on CBS). Frank Sinatra’s old funnyman sidekick then goes on to rib — as he so famously does — the host further with jabs and riffs about the fortune his military service in the Philippines wrought.

He also includes the classic line “two years in the jungle so this man can have a show!”

There’s only one Don Rickles. And don’t you ever forget it, ya hockey puck.

Rickles, who grew up in Queens, New York, enlisted in the United States Navy and was assigned to be aboard the USS Cyrene as a seaman first class.