Not about who did and didn't have TV a show.
Reading before posting is our friend.
Indeed. Which is why you might have stopped to ponder, first, that the post prompting your first reference to Mr. Rickles addressed an earlier post that referenced series television directly. Since that was the context in which I thought we were trading, it wasn't irrelevant to note where Mr. Rickles doesn't exactly belong. In the context of insult humour in general, as opposed to broadcast specific, he certainly belongs in the conversation (even if he would be the first to admit that he modeled his comic persona to a good extent upon that of Joe E. Leonard)---though for my taste he'd be perched way up in the nosebleed seats. There have been better, funnier avatars of insult humour taken as a whole, though there aren't as many who are as adept at standing an audience heckle on its head as Mr. Rickles has been.