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Don Rickles, Legendary Insult Comic, Dies at 90
Variety ^ | 04/06/2017 | Richard Natale

Posted on 04/06/2017 11:15:19 AM PDT by ealgeone

Rickles died Thursday morning at his home in Los Angeles from kidney failure, his longtime publicist Paul Shefrin confirmed.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: comedy; donrickles; johnnycarson; ratpack
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To: ealgeone

Goodbye, Don. My father went to Las Vegas regularly in the ‘50’s and ‘60’s on golf and gambling junkets with his country club pals. Now my father was rather distinctive looking in a sort of blond Germanic Frank Sinatra fashion and Rickles picked up on it and would use him as a foil every time the told man walked into the lounge. This went on for years. RIP, funny man, and thanks for all the Tonight shows.


41 posted on 04/06/2017 11:24:11 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: drewh
Rickles was always sure to give Frank credit for helping his career.

There's a clip from the Tonight Show where Frank tells a story about Rickles and what he did to him in a restaurant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_V9RT8aR8

Hysterical stuff.

42 posted on 04/06/2017 11:24:33 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.
Don Rickles

Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
Don Rickles

Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I’m not a black.
Don Rickles


43 posted on 04/06/2017 11:24:40 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: SamAdams76

Goldthwait isn’t gone, is he????


44 posted on 04/06/2017 11:24:53 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Jane Long

He was enlisted Navy during WWII, Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon were both officers. He would joke about that during his routine.


45 posted on 04/06/2017 11:25:16 AM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: ealgeone
That is such a shame. I was just complimenting him a few weeks ago regarding his appearance on the TV show "Hot in Cleveland". I opined that he didn't look to have aged much since "Kelly's Heroes."

I was pulling for him to keep going. I am sorry to hear that he has died.

46 posted on 04/06/2017 11:25:29 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ealgeone
As some have said, Rickles was politically incorrect before it was incorrect.

Long Career. Great life. Laughs all around.

RIP Don Rickles.

47 posted on 04/06/2017 11:26:21 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: eastforker

FoxNews doing a nice montage, on Rickles, now.

Grew up in Queens, went into the Navy....the rest, as they say, is history.


48 posted on 04/06/2017 11:27:13 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Roccus
"Bob Newhart and his whore of a wife just lost his best friend."

That's how Bob Newhart said Rickles introduced him the first time he took his wife to see Rickles' show.

49 posted on 04/06/2017 11:27:52 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: mewzilla
I hate it when we lose the really good ones!


50 posted on 04/06/2017 11:28:19 AM PDT by drewh
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To: ealgeone

lots of clips on youtube including President Reagan, Dean Martin Roasts, SPIKE TV
https://www.youtube.com/results?

search_query=jerry+seinfeld+comedians+in+cars+getting+coffee+don+rickles


51 posted on 04/06/2017 11:28:29 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: monkapotamus
Such a good movie. One of my favorite scenes is when Rickles tells the card cheat they should count his winnings in the office and orders a nice bottle of champagne.


52 posted on 04/06/2017 11:28:48 AM PDT by moehoward
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To: Defiant
No silly, the next line in Kelly's Hero's Crap Game asks big Joe (Telly Savalss)after "make a deal", is "maybe the he's a republican?" refering to the loan remaining German tiger tank commander sitting in front of the bank.
53 posted on 04/06/2017 11:28:57 AM PDT by Mat_Helm
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To: ealgeone

RIP a legend indeed!


54 posted on 04/06/2017 11:29:41 AM PDT by MomwithHope (The pendulum is swinging our way!..)
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To: ealgeone

RIP.


55 posted on 04/06/2017 11:29:50 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: ealgeone

Rickles spies Frank Sinatra in a restaurant:
“Hey, Frank, it would mean a lot to me if you’d come over to my table and say hi.”
Frank: “Sure Don”
Frank waits for Don the rejoin the party at his table then gets up, garnering the attention of the whole restaurant. The din of the crowd lessens as he approaches Don’s table.
Frank: Hello Don, good to see you.
Don: “What da f*&ck you doin’ I’m with family here!!”


56 posted on 04/06/2017 11:30:08 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: ealgeone

Surprising he wasn’t killed before this.


57 posted on 04/06/2017 11:30:33 AM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: ealgeone

A long run for a talented man. Not politically correct either, take that you hockey-puck professors!


58 posted on 04/06/2017 11:30:36 AM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: SamAdams76

Bobcat is not dead


59 posted on 04/06/2017 11:30:56 AM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: monkapotamus
Casino!


60 posted on 04/06/2017 11:31:32 AM PDT by drewh
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