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Goodbye Dummy. Don Rickles Gone At 90
The insult comic, whose famous album "Hello Dummy" was a part of my childhood, has passed away at age 90. He's one of the few who could insult stars like Frank Sinatra and get away with it. A total original who never used a script or prepared anything on stage, he was best known to a modern generation as the voice of Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story movie.
His eulogy should be something to hear.
Don Rickles, Legendary Insult Comic, Dies at 90
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CJAD's Comedy Show (simulcast on CFRB at 11 PM) will do a special on his passing Thursday night.
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Very sad. My wife and I have a champagne bottle he gave us from our honeymoon in 1983 when we saw him in Vegas. I was one of two people from the audience he picked to join him on stage for a skit (my 15 minutes of fame). Here's the thing that amazed me: We lived in Ottawa at the time and there is no way he could have known that when he called me up from the audience. When I replied to the old "where are you from and what do you do" bit, he immediately went into a joke about the CFL having two teams with the same nickname. I remember telling that to a friend of mine who had done some amateur standup. He told me the great ones had a ready answer for any place, and if I had said "Omaha," he would have had a joke at the tip of his tongue about that city.
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He was so funny...he lived a long good life...I love this clip of him with Frank Sinatra on the Tonight Show...with Johnny Carson...
A true throwback...I miss this kind of comedy in a "politically correct" world..;.I think if we can laugh at ourselves instead of taking everything so seriously, we'd have a different world...
Enjoy the clip!
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John Cleese; of Monty Python fame; on the subject of Political Correctness.