Sense of humor
Besides his musical skills, Feliciano is known for his strong sense of humor. He constantly makes fun of people's reactions to his blindness, and has even played practical jokes on friends and family based on this. A famous incident has him asking a limousine driver who was taking him to a concert in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico to do the following while stopping at a traffic light: push back the drivers' reclining seat while holding the steering wheel, allow him to lean against the driver's door, open the drivers' window, and say hello to his mother Josefina—who was a passenger at another limousine next to his—giving her the impression that he was driving the limousine. Another was when his current Bass player, Ted Arnold, took a similar job, allowing José to appear to be driving down a busy street. Another was in a show. Before he played "Light my fire", he said, "Ï was going to dedicate this song to Jackie Kennedy but I can't see her anywhere in the audience".
He has performed comedy sketches alongside Freddie Prinze, Sunshine Logroño , the staff of Despierta América and Verónica Castro , among others. He has also parodied fellow artists in his concerts, among them: Julio Iglesias, Raphael, the late Rocío Jurado and Isabel Pantoja. An occasional song at his Spanish concerts is a parody of Bobby Capó 's song "El Bardo". While the Right Said Fred song "I'm Too Sexy" was popular in the early 1990s, Feliciano did a parody of it to close his English concerts.
His version of "Old Turkey Buzzard" has become a regular bit on "The Late Show with David Letterman" recently. Jose appeared on the show on October 16, 2007 to perform a live rendition of the song.
