ORANGE BEACH, Ala. – And body who knows Jack Robertson knows he is full of … er … ideas.

Mostly spoofs and gags he can pull while doing his wildly popular – and usually quite bawdy – gigs at the world-famous Flora-Bama Lounge and Package Store.

But one of his zaniest, one he’s about to bring to life for, he thinks, the fifth time is the somewhat annual Big Earlvis show, also at the Flora-Bama. This year’s version kicks off Saturday at 6 p.m. with Troy Brannon followed by an Elvis look-alike contest at 6:45 and the king will be toted in in a coffin at 7 p.m. It’ll cost you $5 at the door.

Many might not know it, but Jack’s entertainment talents aren’t just comedic. He’s as good a guitar picker as there is around, too. He tried a stint in Nashville and even ended up on the Ralph Emory Show singing and trying to land a recording deal.

He landed in Branson, Mo., and Las Vegas playing lead guitar for a variety of shows and singers including several Elvis impersonators. Years of watching these characters spawned a lot of ideas Jack wanted to incorporate into a show.

The most amazing – and hilarious – thing Jack noticed about the impersonators was most didn’t stop being Elvis when the show was over.

“Most of ‘em except maybe one or two guys can’t separate it,” a laughing Jack said. “They really think they are reincarnated or kin to him. You’d be in a band riding down the road and they’d have a towel around their neck and you say ‘you wanna go get a burger?’ And he’d be like ‘no, man, I don’t feel like talking to people today, baby.’

 “I worked for about seven of them and they couldn’t even go to Walmart without acting like Elvis. I’d be like ‘dude, take the jumpsuit off. You’re in Walmart.’”

Then the wheels in Jack’s head started spinning out comedy bits during shows.

 “I was on the stage one night and the dude was singing ‘Love Me Tender’ and I was so bored back then I thought ‘I wish he was eating a jelly donut right now,’” he recalled. “So I would daydream and think of crap I would do. ‘Now wouldn’t it be funny if he was eating a jelly donut and making a peanut butter sandwich?’ And it sort of expanded from there.”

From there to live animals on stage, Big Earlvis being brought in in a coffin and dying on the toilet as the finale, just like Elvis did on Aug. 16, 1977.

“This year I got a new,” he said. “The other one, the bottom ‘bout fell out of it.”

The 2012 version might have spawned Jack’s craziest ideas for Big Earlvis yet.

“I think bringing the live donkey on stage,” he said. “And the goat and singing ‘Love Me Tender’ to the goat or ‘I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You’ cause you so baaaaaaaaaad.”

Management asked if he’d tone down the animal aspects for 2013.

“I wanted a full-size donkey, but with management and liability issues they were afraid it might kick somebody,” he said. “I had to get a midget donkey. If you don’t have a little person, a donkey and a goat, you’re not going to have a show.”

This year he had a big idea was to bring in something a little more exotic.

“I tried to get a monkey this year and I found a little monkey,” he said. “But I wanted like an orangutan and they were afraid of liability issues and then I couldn’t find one. And the zoo won’t even talk to me down here.”

He’s going to go with a pretty pink oinker borrowed from a friend.

“I decided to do away with the monkey and go with a pig,” he said. “She’s gonna have a nice dress on her and everything. It belongs to a lady in Foley, Mary Proctor. She might be embarrassed because I want to use it in the show and I might have to sign a five-page legal contract with a whole list of things I can’t do to the pig.”

The pig is a small pet pig and Jack plans to cradle it in his arms and croon Elvis songs to it.

“She had a big pig and a little pig and I said I’m going to go with the little pig,” Jack said. “We’re going over to her house and get acquainted with the pig.

“I’m gonna sing ‘Love Me Tender’ to the pig and try to get it to squeal. If it won’t squeal then I’m going to have squealing sounds piped in.”

Though the animal count will be down, the body count will be up. Backup singers will be a talented and well-known trio of entertaining ladies, Elaine Petty, Rhonda Hart and Shawna P.

And this year Earlvis will have three nurses attending to him and four Elvis impersonators.

“This time I got three nurses to bring out cocktails and pills and because, hey, one’s just not enough,” he said. “I only got one of his moves down, the karate move and this year I thought about learning the words to most of the songs, but awww, that’s just a lot of work.”

The more on stage the merrier, was the idea behind that move.

“It just keeps getting bigger and bigger,” he said. “Plus the more people I have involved the more time it leaves me for cocktails.”