"Don Rickles was cool because Don Rickles had edge before I knew what it was," he said.
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Fey and Poehler appeared on Spike TV's One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles to speak to Rickles' legacy and career.
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Donald Jay Rickles was born in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens on May 22007, 22014, to Max Rickles, an insurance salesman, and the former Etta Feldman.
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" In 2014, the legendary director joined "Casino" star Robert De Niro in roasting Rickles during Spike TV's "One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles.
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Don Rickles dies at 90 Legendary comedian Don Rickles passed away on Thursday at age 90 as a result of kidney failure, his longtime representative Paul Shefrin confirmed to PEOPLE.
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Sinatra took such a strong liking to the comic that Rickles became an honorary member of the Rat Pack and the singer helped open doors for Rickles and his caustic wit.
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Rickles spent most of his successful years at the Sahara Hotel's Casbar Lounge, the kind of place the Rat Pack—of which Rickles was a kind of honorary member—would frequent.
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So he's like a Don Rickles kind of character, right?
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Getting roasted by Rickles was a brutal badge of honor.
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Don Rickles did the most dangerous and naked act possible.
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Note to Rubio: The Don Rickles act is not presidential.
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Ann Landers, it turns out, occasionally moonlighted as Don Rickles.
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"I make fun of blacks, whites, Jews, Italians—" Rickles quips.
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Legendary comedian Don Rickles died Thursday at the age of 90, but his legacy lives on in his many television appearances and film roles — as well as the documentary Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project Directed by legendary comedy producer John Landis (Animal House), the 2007 doc is made up of hilarious performance clips from Rickles' career, including his stand-up routines and TV cameos (including routine spots on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), with interviews from Rickles woven throughout.
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" Robert DeNiro called Rickles a "great man with a great heart.
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Death has come at last for the insult comedian Don Rickles.
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Not quite Don Rickles, not quite Chuck Berry, but not bad!
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"I shouldn't make fun of the blacks," Rickles stated while onstage.
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Above all, his Don Rickles shtick — politics by insult — wore thin.
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"You're black, I'm white," Mr. Rickles said to an audience member.
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Critics were often not sure what to make of Mr. Rickles.
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For over six decades, Don Rickles was a living comedy highlight reel.
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Don Rickles, we did not want to ever lose you. Never. Hanx.
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Don had his own TV show, "The Don Rickles Show," on ABC.
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The hosts' stories revealed the two sides that made Rickles so beloved.
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Legendary insult comic Don Rickles has died at the age of 90.
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Maureen Dowd: Donald Trump reminds you of your late pal Don Rickles.
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Rickles was a genius, a sort that is very rare and very wonderful.
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Don Rickles died just so you wouldn't ask him to do this gig.
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Rickles appeared on the TV series Get Smart, which ran from 1965-1970.
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"Everything I've ever done, I've never had a writer," Rickles tells Sarah Silverman.
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In a recent appearance remembering late comedian Don Rickles on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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He wanted to do his Don Rickles stuff and it didn't work out.
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Should he continue his "Don Rickles" act, as Trump labeled it this week?
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Finally, here's Don Rickles on "Carson," and that was a different time, huh?
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Landis, who knew Rickles for many decades since working behind the scenes on 1970's Kelly's Heroes and later directed Don to his Emmy-winning turn in the documentary Mr. Warmth, said that Rickles was more than just an insult comic.
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Rickles himself won a Emmy for individual performance for his appearance in the film.
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In 1957, Frank Sinatra walked into a Los Angeles nightclub where Rickles was performing.
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"I suspect at Trump family events," he said, "Trump plays Don Rickles, but viciously."
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Don Rickles leaned over our table at Elaine's and pointed at an attractive blonde.
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"He doesn't like you," Mr. Rickles said, pointing at a person at my table.
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Rickles, Stamos said, used to always badger him about meeting a woman and settling down.
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Rickles starred with Clint Eastwood in 1970's Kelly's Heroes and the two became close.
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Rickles has CNN's Larry King in stitches during this 1985 appearance on Larry King Live.
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Don Rickles, one of the most legendary, iconic and influential comedians in history, has died.
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The late Don Rickles' iconic voice will still make an appearance in Toy Story 4.
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Legendary insult comic Don Rickles died at 90 due to kidney failure, his publicist says.
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That career didn't take off and Rickles enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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"(Rubio) wanted to do his Don Rickles stuff and it didn't work out," Trump said.
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Rickles died of kidney failure at age 90 at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
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" He added, "Don Rickles died just so you wouldn't ask him to do this gig.
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"Make yourself at home, Frank," Mr. Rickles said to Sinatra, whom he had never met.
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Rickles died on Thursday at age 90, but his comedic legacy will never be forgotten.
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" News broke of Rickles' death on Thursday when the iconic comedian's longtime representative Paul Shefrin confirmed to PEOPLE in a statement: "Emmy-Award winning iconic comedian Don Rickles passed away at his home Los Angeles this morning (Thursday) as a result of kidney failure.
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" Mel Brooks described Rickles as "one of the bravest, funniest, and sweetest guys that ever performed.
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For Tucker, he originally misunderstood Rickles' brash comedy, before realizing that was just the star's humor.
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The documentary also features Sarah Silverman, Lily Tomlin, Don Rickles, Whitney Cummings, Gilbert Gottfried and more.
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Above, Rickles and costar Don Adams' behind-the-scenes antics were recorded for a blooper reel.
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The group of late icons included legends such as Powers Boothe, Erin Moran and Don Rickles.
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Rickles has played the character in the previous three movies, starting with the original in 1995.
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In February Rickles told Closer Weekly he had no plans to retire despite his advanced age.
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Dick Van Dyke, Cloris Leachman, Don Rickles, Betty White ... there are more than you might think.
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Mel B: Looming Custody WarKendall Jenner: Pepsi Ad Pisses off PoliceDon Rickles: Unseen Reality Show Footage
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It's like a PBS round-table discussion on campaign finance versus a Don Rickles Celebrity Roast.
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"Make yourself at home, Frank — hit somebody," Rickles snarked, referencing the performer's known penchant for violence.
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Some have likened what he does to insult comedy of the type practiced by Don Rickles.
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Rickles, who earned an outstanding individual performance in a variety or music program Emmy for Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project in 2008, is survived by his wife of 52 years, Barbara, their daughter, Mindy Mann, her husband, Ed, and two grandchildren: Ethan and Harrison Mann.
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Kimo Mansfield (Hawaiian entertainer and choreographer): I used to perform with Don Rickles at the Sahara Hotel.
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Also returning is the late Don Rickles, who voiced Mr. Potato Head in the first three movies.
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Jimmy Kimmel paid a heartfelt tribute to his friend Don Rickles, who died Thursday at age 90.
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Rickles became a very close friend of Kimmel's ... even helping Jimmy through the death of his uncle.
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Last week Jimmy Kimmel paid an emotional tribute to the comic Don Rickles, who died on Thursday.
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As a performer, everything Rickles did was spontaneous, and no one was spared from his comedic crosshairs.
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Then the two go on to enthuse about their Vegas experience, specifically with regard to comedian Don Rickles.
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Rickles was the best insult comic ever, and was a master at roasting celebs at The Friar's Club.
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" —Don Rickles "My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly.
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"I'm going to be sincere here for a second," Poehler tells Rickles in a clip from the show.
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We're starting with last night's win, celebrated by Newhart and his longtime pal and travel companion Don Rickles.
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Rickles would go on to make his mark in the entertainment world in a number of other ways.
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Don Rickles warmed my childhood and he made it O.K. to do the comedy I like to do.
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Rickles clearly couldn't care less that Sinatra and the Rat Pack were basically Hollywood's version of the Avengers.
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"Don coming on our show was always a highlight for me," Letterman said in a statement on Rickles death.
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"And after seeing Don Rickles perform when I was little, I knew what I wanted to be," Poehler says.
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" A whole new generation fell in love with Rickles' work after he was cast as the voice of "Mr.
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The show was shot at some of Rickles' favorite restaurants in Los Angeles including Dan Tana's and The Palm.
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Paul Shefrin, his longtime publicist and friend, said Rickles died Thursday of kidney failure at his Los Angeles home.
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Rickles was the original insult comic — the standup who makes a sport of heckling the audience for a change.
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But if the laughter was uncomfortable, Rickles — whose offstage personality was affably sweet — seemed aware of that as well.
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I will create a personalized service that is thoroughly professional, using insult comedians along the lines of Don Rickles.
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Despite being known as an "insult comic," Rickles always insisted his goal was never to be malicious or mean.
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"For me," Scorsese told the New York Times in 1996, "Don Rickles is one of the great comedians": There's something truly artful about his delivery -- many other comedians who practice insult humor are either way too broad or they hide behind a character, but Rickles keeps this balance between levity and relentlessness.
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" It's a great clip with lots of amusing stories, including why Stamos knows that all of Rickles' passwords are "Hitler.
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On March 11, Rickles celebrated his 52nd wedding anniversary with his bride and expressed his love for her on Twitter.
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" Stamos then joked, "A little baby came out and he looked just like [late comedian and close friend] Don Rickles.
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Jimmy Kimmel smiled, laughed and broke down crying Thursday night while remembering his close friend and beloved comedian Don Rickles.
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Warmth," the biggest names in show business felt that "if they hadn't been insulted by Rickles, they weren't with it.
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Stock recordings of Don Rickles will allow the late comedian to appear in Toy Story 4 two years after his death.
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Rickles was doing just that in the 1950s when Frank Sinatra and his entourage happened upon his performance in Miami Beach.
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TV execs tried to cash in on his popularity with "The Don Rickles Show" in 1972 but it was short-lived.
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There's a dissonance in his bleak dystopia and his brash diss-topia as he switches from Dr. Strangelove to Don Rickles.
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Ever since the death of legendary comedian Don Rickles, we've learned so much about his life from the people who idolized him.
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Three weeks prior to his death, Don Rickles shared his final tweet, which he made in loving tribute to his wife, Barbara.
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Perhaps this is a more fitting way to remember Rickles, who died at the age of 90 on Thursday from kidney failure.
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This article originally appeared on EW.com Throughout Thursday, celebrity tributes poured in for Don Rickles, who died at the age of 90.
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In lieu of flowers, it is suggested that donations be made to the Larry Rickles Endowment Fund at Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
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Jimmy opened "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" by reflecting on his time with Rickles over the years and telling some heartwarming and hilarious stories.
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I looked down and I was holding a dog-eared vinyl copy of the "Hello Dummy!" live album (1968) by Don Rickles.
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Stephen Colbert opened up last night's Late Show by remembering comedy legend Don Rickles, who died Thursday at the age of 90.
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Full House star Bob Saget, who also appeared on the segment, said Rickles would always joke that Stamos exclusively dates nine-year-olds.
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Most people were scared of Don Rickles for good reason, but not her — when she felt he was fresh, she would smack him.
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Rickles tears into The Tonight Show's new host Jay Leno in 1994, who had taken over the job from Carson two years earlier.
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That same day, the 2017 Oscars host dedicated an emotional opening monologue to Rickles by sharing his favorite memories of his childhood idol.
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Hours after learning of Rickles' death, Kimmel, 49, could barely keep it together as he dedicated his opening monologue to the legendary comedian.
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I cared about The Ramones and Iggy Pop, but I worked in comedy, so I was going to see a Vegas comic: Rickles.
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The Rock glowers at some people, Tyrese does his best Don Rickles, Michelle Rodriguez yells "Dom!!!" a lot, and cars go super fast.
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"We can't afford to continue relying on the tired myth of the white swing voter if we want to move forward," Rickles said.
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I'll talk to it, because by then I will have been laid off, too, replaced by a joke-writing computer, the Rickles 9000.
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Mr. Rickles, the comedian known for hurling insults at audience members (they could be tourists or Frank Sinatra), died Thursday at age 90.
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By 1995, Rickles had reenergized career with starring roles in Toy Story and Casino, but he didn't lose a step sparring with David Letterman.
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Comedy legend Don Rickles died Thursday afternoon, and a clip of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler honoring him in 2014 is the perfect tribute.
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David Letterman is saying goodbye to the late Don Rickles, who made numerous appearances on his late-night programs throughout the past three decades.
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") In due course, Trump perfected his unique voice: the cockeyed neologisms and the fractured syntax, the emphatic punctuation, the Don Rickles-era exclamations ("Sad!
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Netroots Nation communications director Mary Rickles added that there is a need for "progressives from all levels of government" to weigh in on issues.
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Since his death last week, Don Rickles — the man Johnny Carson nicknamed Mr. Warmth — has been tweeted about, talked about, written about, cried about.
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New Yorkers have a history of rewarding politicians who approach governance much the way Don Rickles constructed his comedy routine: as rule by insult.
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Mr. Rickles was soon being championed by Sinatra, Dean Martin and the other members of the show business circle known as the Rat Pack.
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Other notable celebrities honored this year were the late director Jonathan Demme, actor John Heard, Roger Moore, Don Rickles, Sam Shepard and Harry Dean Stanton.
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"Emmy-Award winning iconic comedian Don Rickles passed away at his home Los Angeles this morning (Thursday) as a result of kidney failure," wrote Shefrin.
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Rickles lent his iconic voice to the Mr. Potato Head character in 1995's Toy Story and became one of the film's most lovable characters.
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The 10-episode series, announced last month, features Rickles sharing meals and trading barbs with friends and fellow comics he has inspired over the years.
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Don Rickles certainly left his mark in comedy and was a major influence on generations of fans, including Jimmy Kimmel, Bob Saget and John Stamos.
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The Hollywood legend partied with his wife, his son Michael and Catherine Zeta-Jones, their kids, Steven Spielberg, Don Rickles and many more Friday night.
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Emma Roller The legendary insult comic Don Rickles supposedly has one nagging fear in the back of his head when he goes out on onstage.
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Don Rickles wants to finally pay someone a compliment with a new beachside crib ... so long as he gets paid a few million bucks first.
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Mr. Rickles, who grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, and died Thursday at age 90, often dined at Elaine's when he was in New York.
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Lewis's death comes just days after the death of standup comedian Dick Gregory, and earlier this year, another cantankerous comedian, Don Rickles, died at 22011.
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Martin Landau, Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles were just some of the late industry greats who were celebrated and honored at the Oscars on Sunday evening.
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Fey opens the segment, eerily enough, as if he's passed away, before Poehler interrupts her to point out that Rickles is alive and well before them.
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She expertly fed set-ups to hosts like Don Rickles and Dean Martin, who used her confusion as a hook on which to hang their punchlines.
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My grandfather was a huge wannabe comedian, and he took me to see every comic in New York: Jackie Mason, Alan King, Henny Youngman, Don Rickles.
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The fact that Mr. Rickles was able to speak those slurs onstage may be a sign not of his era's ignorance but of its fleeting liberation.
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Don Rickles became famous for throwing barbs at any group he could target, but he was often at his most caustic while roasting his fellow celebrities.
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Dean Martin once called the comedian the "funniest man in show business," and Rickles went on to join the singer's Celebrity Roast shows as a regular.
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WARNING: CLIPS CONTAIN EXPLICIT LANGUAGE Rickles was considered an honorary member of Sinatra's Rat Pack, and he was also a favorite guest of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
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Don Rickles' many famous friends and fans are taking to social media in the wake of his death to mourn and share memories of the beloved comedian.
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At the annual Al Smith charity dinner in 2016, Mr. Trump, channeling Don Rickles, made fun of his wife, Melania, for plagiarizing a speech by Michelle Obama.
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Don Rickles, a stand-up comic for more than half a century, made outrageously derisive comments about people's looks, ethnicity or anything else he could think of.
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Mr. Friedman, a soft-spoken, thoughtful writer who prefers Bob Newhart to Don Rickles, didn't like insult comedy and added some self-deprecation to the character's repertoire.
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In a statement obtained by PEOPLE on Thursday, Rickles rep Paul Shefrin announced that the longtime veteran actor and comedian had passed away at the age of 90.
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More of Don Rickles' friends are remembering the late comedian — who died on Thursday at age 90 in his Los Angeles home as a result of kidney failure.
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"I thought he was racist at first and then I was like, 'Oh that's Don Rickles — he ain't racist, he's just a legend,' " the Rush Hour actor, 45, said.
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AARP Studios has released an amuse-bouche for Dinner With Don, one of the final screen projects of the venerable comedian Don Rickles, who died Thursday at age 90.
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"He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Barbara, as well as their daughter Mindy Mann and her husband Ed, and Rickles' two grandchildren, Ethan and Harrison Mann."
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Don Rickles had already shot a full season of his reality show, "Dinner with Don," when he died ... and TMZ got a first look at some of the footage.
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John also reveals how director Josh Cooley was able to keep Don Rickles in the latest movie as the voice of Mr. Potato Head despite Don's passing in 2017.
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In many ways, over a career that began in the late 1940s and lasted until his death, Rickles personified America's growing postwar cynicism and increasing turn toward ironic entertainment.
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While new characters voiced by Christina Hendricks and Keanu Reeves are given short shrift, it's good to hear Wallace Shawn (as Rex) and Don Rickles (as Mr. Potato Head).
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Don Rickles, the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles.
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Health problems inevitably slowed Mr. Rickles down, but even after a leg infection in 2014 affected his ability to walk, he continued performing, making occasional concert and television appearances.
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Don Rickles, the comedian who pioneered an abrasive (but hilarious) breed of in-your-face humor and inspired a generation of imitators, has died at 90 of kidney failure.
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Comedians George Carlin and Don Rickles were also fans, having seen him perform in Las Vegas, where he moved in the 70s before relocating to California, where he lives today.
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Rickles frequently starred on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson and Late Show with David Letterman, and returned to The Tonight Show in 2015 to heckle current host Jimmy Fallon.
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The only mention Gosling made of his life as a father was a brief story he told while talking about him and Kimmel's mutual friend, actor Don Rickles' 90th birthday.
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After failing to find work as a dramatic actor and suffering what he called "rejection, rejection, rejection," Rickles moved into comedy, where he endured years of heckling from nightclub audiences.
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Just as he was about to leave — after he had insulted the women at the bar and tipped the bartender — Mr. Rickles stood at the front door and turned around.
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Don Rickles, who made his name as a devastating insult comic but endeared himself to a new generation of fans as Toy Story's Mr. Potato Head, has died at age 90.
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Now we have a king, one who combines the worst qualities of Don Rickles and Don Corleone and who, if he isn't in the pay of Russia, might as well be.
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While the show was originally created to be a bridge between older and younger generations of comics, after Rickles' death just after filming wrapped, the show took on a new tone.
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Other notable stars honored were Jeanne Moreau, Martin Landau, John Herd, Sam Shepard, Nelsan Ellis, Dick Gregory, Jerry Van Dyke, Della Reese, Jim Nabors, Erin Moran and Don Rickles (among others).
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Rubio should drop the Rickles act Marco Rubio made the most of his time on stage Thursday night, to the extent that someone with no apparent path to the nomination can.
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People sat on the metal benches, trying to guess which person Mr. Simmons would pick on next, an open-air comedy show in the vein of Don Rickles or Richard Pryor.
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On Monday night's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" he welcomed Bob Saget and John Stamos, the former stars of "Full House" and close friends of Mr. Rickles, to remember the famed insult comedian.
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Whereas today's stand-up comedians often break out to pursue film and TV, or hope for a Netflix deal, Rickles never really launched an on-screen career in his own right.
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People we lost in 2017 Known as the world's greatest insult comic, Rickles enjoyed a career that spanned decades and found him performing in everything from nightclubs to a Martin Scorsese film.
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Los Angeles led to some TV and movie roles, but it was in Las Vegas, the Rat Pack's home base, where Rickles perfected his craft of curmudgeonly humor with sharply timed insults.
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" Over my quarter-century as an insult comic, I have joked many times, "When is that old Jew Rickles gonna die so I can be the only insult comic in the world?
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Through a series of heartfelt, often raw monologues — his eulogy for friend/mentor Don Rickles radiated a perfect mix of warmth, pain, and humor — the sharp Everyman truly realized his powers of persuasion.
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Months before dying from kidney failure at age 90 on April 6, legendary insult comedian Don Rickles filmed an original series for AARP's digital platform called Dinner with Don, which is available now.
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Celebrities like musicians Tom Petty, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, actors Jim "Gomer Pyle" Nabors, Della Reese and Roger Moore, and comedians Jerry Lewis and Don Rickles all left us.
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He plays to the audience like the notorious Andrew Dice Clay at his height, riffing the way Don Rickles once did in top Las Vegas rooms during his Rat Pack-era glory days.
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"He just looked at me and said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry to hear Saturday Night Live was canceled,'" shared Meyers on Late Night, saying he told Rickles the show was still on the air.
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The 13-episode unscripted series features Rickles having dinner and conversations at some of his favorite Los Angeles restaurants with fellow comedians and celebrities like Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, Billy Crystal and Sarah Silverman.
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Rickles actually struggled in the entertainment industry for nearly a decade — first as a dramatic actor, and then as a nightclub comic, a role that would remain a lifelong gig — before finding his stride.
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Born in 1926 to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Queens, Rickles served in the Navy during World War II before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts at the age of 22.
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I like the possibility of "magical reflection" rather than seeing more examples either of the "literal" or the "rethinking of the representation," both of which have become predictable, tiresome spiels, Don Rickles on Valium.
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Finally, in the best of late-night TV: On "Jimmy Kimmel Live," John Stamos and Bob Saget, the former stars of "Full House," remembered Don Rickles, the famed insult comedian who died last week.
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Whether Trump wins or loses, he's transformed the race, so much so that Marco Rubio, once the Latino boy scout who would save the GOP, is now reduced to being a cut-rate Don Rickles.
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Though the movie was announced in 2014 and Rickles signed on to come back as Mr. Potato Head, the comedian hadn't yet recorded any of his parts since he died before the script was finalized.
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Paul Callan is right: Colbert's humor was probably too much -- especially for guys like you and me, raised on Johnny Carson and his "edgy" G-rated guests, like Steve Martin and the "mean" Don Rickles.
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Don Rickles' official cause of death is end-stage renal disease detected in the last couple months of his life, along with years of other health issues ... this according to his death certificate obtained by TMZ.
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Rickles' final series – Dinner With Don by AARP Studios – features the star sharing meals and trading barbs with friends and fellow comics he has inspired over the years, including Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler and Sarah Silverman.
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At the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's Sandy Wexler on Thursday, comedians Chris Tucker and Arsenio Hall took time from walking the red carpet at the ArcLight Cinema's Cinema Dome to share memories of Rickles with PEOPLE.
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If you are in a position of higher status or early in your relationship, it's best to avoid jokes that are aggressive (roasts, teasing, mocking); it is worth noting that Don Rickles never held an office job.
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"These newly confirmed speakers remind us that we need progressives from all levels of government and from all walks of life to weigh in on the most important progressive issues of our time," Rickles said in a statement.
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" Concluding: "I was lucky to know him – My love and condolences to Don's wife Barbara, his daughter Mindy – his stepdaughters – Bob Saget and John Stamos His main man Tony O – Paul Shefrin – There will never be another Don Rickles.
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With the rain pelting me like a fusillade of insults at a Don Rickles (RIP) performance, I remove the umbrella from its zipper case, wishing that part was automated, too, and press the up-arrow button on the handle.
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A variety show in 1968 and a situation comedy in 1972, both called "The Don Rickles Show," were short-lived, as was "Daddy Dearest," a 1993 sitcom in which he and the comedian Richard Lewis played father and son.
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Don Rickles had two special gifts: the audacity to make fun of anyone and everyone, often to their faces, and the skill to do it so hilariously that no one really cared he was laying down insult after insult.
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Whether he was roasting his own audience during a stand-up routine, bringing talk-show-host veterans to tears with laughter or acting alongside the biggest movie stars in the world, all of Rickles' performances were one of a kind.
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Directed by Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray) and written by a quartet of industry pros including Jeff Ross and Richard LaGravenese, The Comedian features De Niro as a once-edgy Don Rickles-like stand-up named Jackie Burke.
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One of them is Don Rickles, who voiced Mr. Potato Head for the prior three movies, but sadly passed away before filming began but his family gave their blessing for Pixar to use old recordings of his for the film.
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Think of Rickles in his later years, when he had become a beloved comedy legend: People in the audience begged him to make fun of them; it was something to be proud of, a moment to share with everyone you knew.
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For more than half a century, on nightclub stages, in concert halls and on television, Mr. Rickles made outrageously derisive comments about people's looks, their ethnicity, their spouses, their sexual orientation, their jobs or anything else he could think of.
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At the top of a voluminous and talent-rich voice cast (which, alas, neglects to include the maestros of irate sarcasm Don Rickles and Nicky Katt), Jason Sudeikis portrays Red, the irascible odd bird out in a community of irrationally upbeat avian neighbors.
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Playing a bit like a cross between Don Rickles and Jimmy Kimmel's "mean tweets," his comedy targeted, among others, Mel Gibson, Caitlyn Jenner (or more specifically, her driving after a fatal car accident), Tim Allen, and the cast of "Sex and the City," among others.
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LOS ANGELES, April 6 (Reuters) - Don Rickles, the master insult comic who created laughs with ridicule and sarcasm in a decades-long career that earned him the sarcastic nickname Mr. Warmth, died on Thursday at his Los Angeles home from kidney failure, his publicist said.
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Ailes, who was accused of sexual harassment by more than 20 women (claims he denied), died in May at age 77 and was featured in the Emmys In Memoriam alongside such television legends as Adam West, Don Rickles, Debbie Reynolds, Jerry Lewis, Florence Henderson, and much more.
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But he went further than Archie Bunker, and while Carroll O'Connor, who played Archie, was speaking words someone else had written — and was invariably the butt of the joke — Mr. Rickles, whose targets included his fellow Jews, never needed a script and was always in charge.
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"We went back through all of the outtakes for all of the films, all the shorts, all the video games, all the ice-capades shows, every possible thing, and there was a lot of Don Rickles," director Josh Cooley said at a press day for the film, according to Comicbook.
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Don Rickles, legendary insult comic, dead at 90 "Dinner with Don" had been announced recently as a 10 episode series in which the legendary performer would dine and chat with major stars including Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, Vince Vaughn, Paul Rudd, Marisa Tomei and Martin Scorsese.
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This crew includes Buzz, Jessie (Joan Cusack), Bullseye, the Potato Heads (Don Rickles and Estelle Harris), Slinky (Blake Clark), Rex (Wallace Shawn), Hamm (John Ratzenberger), and three-eyed aliens; in passing it's mentioned that Andy's sister, Molly, no longer has her Bo Peep lamp housing Bo Peep (Annie Potts), Woody's toy love.
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The touching portrait of the curmudgeonly comedian who could fire off insults better than any other also contains some surprising tidbits — find out how Rickles gave Clint Eastwood the idea to register in hotels under the name "Larry Dickman" — and pays great tribute to one of the most iconic faces of comedy for more than six decades.
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No strangers to the television screen were the comics Irwin Corey, that foremost authority on, well, whatever it was; Shelley Berman, who did his stand-up sitting down, on his signature stool, to fret about an anxious age; Don Rickles, who made insults a comic art; and Dick Gregory, who for all his barbed wit saw no joke in his campaigns for civil rights.
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In Mr. Warmth, a 2007 documentary about Rickles, a wide range of Hollywood personalities, from Whoopi Goldberg to Clint Eastwood to the late Robin Williams, all comment on how the comedian would be completely bombastic and offensive on topics like race, religion, sex, and gender, but was so talented and funny that even those who would've otherwise been upset by Rickles's material tended to walk away impressed.
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Educated at a school in Queens whose slim roster of celebrated alums boasts Don Rickles number one, my mother knew little about art, but she took me to a show where she withdrew into private air on seeing "The Potato Eaters" and "Three Pairs of Shoes" because the shoes resembled my grandmother's high-topped boots my mother knelt before and laced up every morning after applying salve to those diabetes-ulcerated shins.
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You didn't have to think that Trump himself was funny to see this effect: I found him repulsive, and yet I could hear those comedy rhythms everywhere, from the Rodney Dangerfield "I don't get no respect" routine to the gleeful insult-comic slams of Don Rickles (for "hockey puck," substitute "Pocahontas") to Andrew Dice Clay, whose lighten-up-it's-a-joke, it's-not-him-it's-a-persona brand of misogyny dominated the late nineteen-eighties.
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Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, his offbeat, intimate talk show that is conducted in a vintage vehicle (and includes a pit stop for caffeine/foodstuff) returns for an eighth season of ridesharing – and story sharing – between humorists, who have included everyone from Steve Martin to Don Rickles to Tina Fey to Louis C.K. (And let's not forget President Obama.) "It seems all I have to do is sit down with someone that interests me and interesting conversations just happen," Seinfeld, 62, tells Entertainment Weekly.
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