Posted on 11/28/2008 4:14:55 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Rickles makes fun of Obama. Crowd did not like it. Libs can't laugh at anything.
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Way to go Don. (My hero.)
“Drop and give me 20, you hockey pucks.”
not only do libs not have a sense of humor most are either too young or were stoned during rickles’ early years. i’ve watched some of the roasts and he is a riot, as long as you can laugh at yourself. all the old stars could.
there was one roast, i think for govenor reagan, and rich little got up, looked down the table and said “ all the people i impersonate are up here tonight.”
Been LMAO at both video clips ... great stuff!
Well that just proves it.
Rickles is racist!
Truthfully, I didn’t find it funny either. But then I’ve never enjoyed Rickles’s sense of humor. I just applaud him for daring to make fun of St. Obama.
That Obama joke fell flat because it was stupid. Rickles acts like Obama was a former NBA player or something. Obama was a mere bench player (a 3-point specialist, apparently) for the Punahou High School basketball team. He did not even play basketball on any official team at Occidental College or Columbia University— just pickup games and intramural squads. His set up wasn’t bad— some WH crisis and how Obama would react— but the punchline was garbage.
Still, it is amazing that he looks as healthy as he does at 82.
That crowd is so uptight and politically correct. Shows how far we have fallen as a nation. Years ago the crowd would be rolling in laughter. Today everyone is so afraid of insulting this group or that group. Rickles is an equal opportunity offender and a national treasure.
About the only one left of the great ones....?
Our posts are seconds apart, but I agree. The joke wasn’t funny. A regular stand up comedian would be heckled in the clubs for such a bad punchline. Jesus, our side needs to work on better material or it will be a long 4-8 years.
“Rickles makes fun of Obama. Crowd did not like it. Libs can’t laugh at anything. “
The late night commedians have commented about ‘who will we talk about now’....they KNOW they won’t criticize Obama. But really, what are they going to do......keep kicking Bush for four more years?
What a mess.
“Don is one of the best!”
Saw Rickles in Vegas in the late 90’s. Still doing the old jokes he did when Martin and Sinatra were alive. He mentioned how he missed them.
Anyway, one of his first jokes...
He’s talking,
colored guy walks on the stage(wearing a white vest like a porter)...
Rickles says “What? is there something wrong with the luggage?”
Jay Leno is still telling Sarah Palin jokes. Of Obama, he never tells one specifically. Only about things related, like biden or his cabinet picks. Sickening.
Brilliant comedian..
“Jew jokes, mafia jokes, black jokes, drinking jokes...pretty much covers life in “the pack”.”
Exactly.
Rickles is, from what I understand, an intensely shy, gentle and exceptionally kind man when not performing.
“Jay Leno is still telling Sarah Palin jokes. Of Obama, he never tells one specifically. Only about things related, like biden or his cabinet picks. Sickening.”
Yes, and more than scary.
You forgot to mention Zero’s career selling crack to his teammates. I’m so glad that we have been able as a nation to move beyond the fact that george Bush had a few beers in his youth to the relatively insignificant fact that Obamanation, whose picture will stand along side george Washington’s, was a crack head, a crack addict and sold crack to other kids to feed his habit. Gee, what an intelligent electorate we have.
I would not be surprised. He’s an entertainer. Not necessarily what he portrays himself to be on stage.
Interesting, true story...
Friend of mine’s Mom loved Dean Martin. In her 80’s when she saw one of his late shows in Vegas. It was kinda raunchy.
She was very disappointed.
Somehow, word got to Martin that this fan was disappointed.
He showed up at her hotel room the next morning. Explained to her that the late show gets a little nasty after everyone has been drinking. Invites her to the next night’s early show as his guest...
Great guy.
Dean was class.
I recently read Jerry Lewis' autobiography, "Dean and Me". Jerry was absolutely gushing over Dean, his singing and comedy talent.
I miss all those old pro comedians.
“I miss all those old pro comedians.”
Same here.
I got here in 1983.
Many, many times do I wish I would have got here in 1963, too see the spectacle of talent on display....just wow.
Too bad I was born in '56, lol.
I met Red Fox at Sam's Town, playing Keno. Met him in line to bet / collect, he came over to sit by me....I hit it big, $1,100 on a 5/6, played the birthdays of my family....
He gave me so much sh!t, "Honkie wins - he's buying, unless he is a cheap b!tch!" - then he looked at me and said, "you ain't no cheap b!tch are ya?"
Priceless........
There is no other place like Las Vegas.
LaterI saw Sinatra on one of his last tours, maybe his last, and Rickles was the set up. Still hysterical.
Sinatra, of course, was brilliant. What a great show.
Since then I have given Rickles another chance. Sometimes he can be a little dated or off-key, but overall he is an original genius.
-PJ
“These are new jokes, I’m trying out in front of a bad crowd.” Priceless.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I agree. Insult humor, like Rickles and Joan Rivers, is grating and profoundly unfunny.
Many years ago, I saw a Don Rickles routine. He said he’d visited Japan, and that the Japanese were so polite. Everywhere he went, the people bowed and said to him, “Ah-so, Ah-so!”
Rickles mocks and defuses "stupid" ethnic stereotypes. In this case it is the old stereotype, "black guy = basketball player". When Rickles gets going in his act, people laugh at that kind of humor.
If Obama was a former NBA player then the joke would not have been a Rickles-type joke.
Laugh at it or not, call it a stupid joke or not, with your above long explanation of how the joke would have been funny, you miss the Rickles formula.
I would pay myself a million bucks if I could listen to him 10 min & not outright laugh.
LMAO I love both of othe videos. Thanks, Rickles is great!
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“Ah-so, Ah-so!”
LOL. That sounds like him.
Right, but it was OK, even compulsory for ‘hollywierd’ types to get up on stage and regurgitate all forms of filth and slander against President Bush!
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