All hail Danny DeVito, king of Asbury Park (sorry, Springsteen and Bon Jovi, but you've gotten more than your fair share).

The New York Times reports that on Saturday, at the Asbury Park Music & Film Festival, Gov. Phil Murphy is set to announce that the veteran actor, a Monmouth County native, will get his own state day. The gesture is not without significance -- the actor will become the first person from Asbury Park to get their own day.

When exactly is Danny DeVito Day? Why, Nov. 17, the birthday of the man who would play Martini in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (alongside Jack Nicholson, who hails from Neptune City), animate the abrasive dispatcher Louie DePalma in "Taxi," team with Arnold Schwarzenegger for "Twins" and "Junior," become the Penguin in "Batman Returns" and "get weird with it" as Frank Reynolds on "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."

"I was very flattered," DeVito told the Times. "Of course, they first told me I could have a beach. Yeah, but they reneged. So I said, 'Oh, that's perfect. It's New Jersey.'"

DeVito, 73, who was born in Neptune Township and grew up in Asbury Park, is a member of the New Jersey Hall of Fame, inducted in 2010, with the help of Bruce Springsteen.

"He has Jersey attitude pouring out of him, even when he is standing still," Springsteen said at the ceremony.

On Saturday, DeVito will be in Asbury Park for a career retrospective as a headliner at the music and film festival (Wyclef Jean is another).

"Career retrospective is a lot of words, man," DeVito told NJ Advance Media in a recent interview, recalling the days when he worked at a boardwalk amusement park as a teen, snacking on hot dogs, candy apples, root beer, and French fries with vinegar and salt. "There's a lot of TV, lot of movies, a lot of stuff."

DeVito, who would sneak into the Lyric Theatre when he was young to watch the movies "condemned" by his Catholic school teachers, told the Times he intends to lobby the state about reinstating tax incentives for film productions in New Jersey, which had been allowed to expire under former Gov. Chris Christie, who did not support their revival.

"Now that I'm an icon and have a Danny DeVito Day, I'm going to try my best to get the tax incentive passed in New Jersey so that we can make movies in New Jersey," said DeVito, whose production company is called Jersey Films (responsible for movies like "Man on the Moon," "Matilda" and "Erin Brockovich") and is run by the Jersey Group, the company he's operated with wife Rhea Perlman (they're now separated).

DeVito isn't the only Jersey-bred celebrity to receive the "day" honor. Jon Bon Jovi and Bon Jovi recently got their own calendar day (April 14), to celebrate the band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It's probably only a matter of time before we get an entire Springsteen Season.

Amy Kuperinsky may be reached at akuperinsky@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @AmyKup or on Facebook.