When he asked for a hammer in the chiseled him out video, I was hoping it was because he’d accepted his lot in life and that’d need to learn to climb towards the heavens using nothing but the leverage of a good sledgehammer.
Oh, he was probably just rehearsing his role in Pirandello’s short story/comedy, and got too much into character:
A very good interpretation of the story, by Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, usually very low-brow comedians, but with talent to sell, directed by the Taviani brothers: