3 questions with Toy Story 5’s Jeff Bergman, the new voice of Mr. Potato Head

Rickles began his stand-up comedy career in the 1950s as a pioneering insult comedian. He also became a staple on television, particularly for his many appearances on The Tonight Show from the 1960s until his death in 2017. When he was cast as Mr. Potato Head, he played the character pretty much as himself, or at least the loudmouth, insulting persona he was known for onstage. The writers of the first Toy Story film even threw in a reference to Rickles’ act in the first film, when Mr. Potato Head looks at a toy hockey puck and asks, “What are you looking at, you hockey puck?” (“Hockey puck” was a common, nonsense insult he called people.)