"I was like this insane monkey in the woods and I had acorns," he says of his early days as a child. "It's not a metaphor for money by the way it's just a skill how many acorns are in that tree have you done that long enough?" The comedian is married to actress Val Ackerman, who has never worked but holds an important role in her family. Ackerman: We all need Val because we've achieved this balance it's right for us It's not that is not the fix for everybody."