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DEAD THREAD 2017: "This guy here is dead!"..."Cross him off, then!"

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Don Rickles,90
 
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:(

His routine was much better suited for years past, given how people react to comedy shows these days, but I still laugh every time I come across one of his old acts.
 
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St. Clown said:
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His routine was much better suited for years past, given how people react to comedy shows these days, but I still laugh every time I come across one of his old acts.
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There are bootlegs of his stand up that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Dude had the biggest pair of brass balls in comedy. I guess once you've done your insult comic act on actual mobsters and murderers not a lot phases you.

One of the greats (Dangerfield, maybe?) had a story about working with Rickles at one of those Catskills Dirty Dancing resorts in the 50s or 60s, and some noted crime boss drunkenly heckling Rickles, and Rickles just turning and destroying him -- four or five quick lines, very personal, and I mean everybody in the place stopped dead, you can hear a pin drop, and the guy looking Rickles up and down for a long time and then bursting into uncontrollable laughter.

Once you've done that the snotty coed and her black lesbian sensitivities just isn't going to mean a lot to you.
 
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Kepler said:
There are bootlegs of his stand up that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Dude had the biggest pair of brass balls in comedy. I guess once you've done your insult comic act on actual mobsters and murderers not a lot phases you.

One of the greats (Dangerfield, maybe?) had a story about working with Rickles at one of those Catskills Dirty Dancing resorts in the 50s or 60s, and some noted crime boss drunkenly heckling Rickles, and Rickles just turning and destroying him -- four or five quick lines, very personal, and I mean everybody in the place stopped dead, you can hear a pin drop, and the guy looking Rickles up and down for a long time and then bursting into uncontrollable laughter.

Once you've done that the snotty coed and her black lesbian sensitivities just isn't going to mean a lot to you.
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No, he wouldn't be phased by it at all. In fact, a couple years ago he gave an interview about the changing attitude towards comedy acts. He said , and of course I'm paraphrasing, that he goes up there and gives the best performance he knows how. If people laugh and really enjoy it, then that's great and it makes for a really fun evening all around. If the crowd isn't as receptive, then there's always the next show.
 
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No, he wouldn't be phased by it at all. In fact, a couple years ago he gave an interview about the changing attitude towards comedy acts. He said , and of course I'm paraphrasing, that he goes up there and gives the best performance he knows how. If people laugh and really enjoy it, then that's great and it makes for a really fun evening all around. If the crowd isn't as receptive, then there's always the next show.
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Bill Hicks said something like Rickles taught him that if your joke gets zero laughs you can use that as a platform to put anything you want on it -- you've created a genuine moment of tension. Rickles would use it to set up an even bigger gag, Hicks would use it to drop something for people to actually think about because in that instant he knew people were listening. They both had the mastery to use a moment of anxiety, and the rubber-necking that people can't help in reacting to it, as a part of the act. Pryor had that too, in fact went "looking for a fight" to generate that feeling because he was angry, but Rickles used it purely to lampoon, basically inviting the crowd to laugh at him as the biggest joke of all.

That takes somebody who is very secure in himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvcrEO7DsY&list=PL8F0A010F57747C44&index=17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxipk-Oaufo&list=PL8F0A010F57747C44&index=18
 
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Don Rickles has always been a huge favorite of mine. When Vegas was Vegas, Rickles was the King, going on at 2am and doing maybe 4 hours without a net. He didn't tell jokes really, he just talked and entertained off the cuff. Always thought he was a underrated in the main stream. An enormous amount of talent packed into such a tiny Jew. Thanks for all the laughs...

Here's a clip off the Tonight Show with Sinatra and Carson. The last minute is the Chairman of the Board telling one of my all time favorite Rickles stories. Somewhere there's a clip of the same story being told by Sinatra pal Jilly Rizzo, but this one will suffice.
 
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Kepler said:
There are bootlegs of his stand up that will make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. Dude had the biggest pair of brass balls in comedy. I guess once you've done your insult comic act on actual mobsters and murderers not a lot phases you.

One of the greats (Dangerfield, maybe?) had a story about working with Rickles at one of those Catskills Dirty Dancing resorts in the 50s or 60s, and some noted crime boss drunkenly heckling Rickles, and Rickles just turning and destroying him -- four or five quick lines, very personal, and I mean everybody in the place stopped dead, you can hear a pin drop, and the guy looking Rickles up and down for a long time and then bursting into uncontrollable laughter.

Once you've done that the snotty coed and her black lesbian sensitivities just isn't going to mean a lot to you.
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In Kevin Pollack's book he talks about Rickles making it his mission on the set of Casino to rip into Deniro any chance he got and how Deniro loved every second of it. He did the same to Pesci who hated it deeply!
 
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Dam. What a great hate comic.
 
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Handyman said:
how Deniro loved every second of it. He did the same to Pesci who hated it deeply!
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Huh. I'd have guessed the exact opposite.
 
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Kepler said:
Huh. I'd have guessed the exact opposite.
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Nah. Deniro has never been a comic, and Pesci was never anywhere near as successful as Rickles. Pesci would see people laughing at Rickles and would feel threatened or inferior by him.

/my theory.
 
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Kepler said:
Huh. I'd have guessed the exact opposite.
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I wouldn't have. It seems odd, and it is, but from what I have heard and read about those actors.....
 
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