Posted on 06/08/2012 4:00:14 PM PDT by Nachum
Don Rickles nearly hijacked the American Film Institute’s tribute to Shirley MacLaine on Thursday night at Sony Pictures Studios, unleashing a trademark barrage of insults that took aim at President Obama, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and the honoree herself.
“I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks,” Rickles said, and then proceeded to do just that: “President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.”
The black-tie crowd, gathered to celebrate MacLaine, the 40th recipient of the AFI’s Life Achievement Award, alternately gasped at the 86-year-old comic’s put-downs and then found themselves laughing and applauding.
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“Shirley,” Rickles, living up to his moniker as Mr. Warmth, began as he rose to his feet from a table near the center of the room. “I never read your books, and I don’t plan to.”
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Characterizing Barack as a mop-person is entirely too kind.
I remember a Don Rickles line from 30 years ago.
It went something like this (him talking):
“I was in Japan last month, and I can tell you the Japanese people are so polite. Everywhere I went they said, ‘ah-so’, ‘ah-so’.”
He’s always been abrasive, but at least he knows it. I wouldn’t hold anything against him at his age.
Nothing shocks the Hollywood Crowd. Absolutely nothing.
That was a race-joke joke, not a race joke.
Don Rickles was in one of my favorite movies of all time, Kellys Heroes.
Whoops, Don’s career is now officially over. You don’t criticize The One and live to tell about it.
One of the funniest things I ever heard Rickles say was on the Tonight Show. Sinatra was one of the guests, and Don turned to him and said, “Frank, I just talked with your friend Guido Cabaletti, and he told me to tell you that the package has been delivered.”
Of course, it’s okay to make jokes about Italians.
That’s his schtick. If anyone is shocked then tough sh!t.
Hope his funeral plans are taken care of.
Maybe ist’s just that I’m paying attention,
but I’m seeing cracks appearing in the fascade
of the One. Splits in his party, leaks in his
administration and now jokes, something that
would have been unthinkable three years ago.
What a stupid Headline for the article... I would have been “Shocked” if Rickles didn’t do his insult everyone routine. Hell, it has been his schtick to be an equal opportunity offender for 60 years for Christ sake.
Go Don Go!!!
“Don Rickles is dead to us.” —unnamed White House staffer
I wouldn’t be surprised to see the Zero hold a special press conference about this.
I love that guy!
I really miss Buddy Hackett
The best jokes were done back in the 70s BEFORE political correctness reared its UGLY, UNWANTED head and ruined everything. Hey, it was a compliment if you got noticed enough to MAKE a JOKE about you...People need to GET OVER THEMSELVES already! What a bunch of thin skinned pussies!
The best jokes were done back in the 70s BEFORE political correctness reared its UGLY, UNWANTED head and ruined everything. Hey, it was a compliment if you got noticed enough to MAKE a JOKE about you...People need to GET OVER THEMSELVES already! What a bunch of thin skinned pussies!
He was the perfect foil to Rickles
LOL!
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