Dangerfield In Coma After Heart Surgery Actor Had Heart Valve Replacement Surgery Aug. 25 LOS ANGELES (AP) Rodney Dangerfield has been in a coma for a couple of weeks after undergoing heart surgery but has begun to show awareness, his wife said in a statement Monday The 82-year-old comedian was stable and had been breathing on his own for 24 hours, Joan Dangerfield said in the statement released by the comic's publicist, Kevin Sasaki. Dangerfield had a heart valve replaced Aug. 25 at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center. There was no mention of a coma in a...
