OMG that funny you could find anything on YOU TUBE
That was funny. Not one dirty word.
Thanks for the guffaws!
Don Rickles is my favorite comedian: If you haven’t seen it, rent “Kelly’s Heroes” with Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland and Gavin MacLeod.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065938/
I wish you could get those Roasts on DVD. I’d love to buy a whole set. I’m only 43, but I remember that stuff clearly and would laugh when the old man had it on the TV.
Jack Benny next to Reagan, I noticed. Another legend.
If you want a walk back in time, rent or purchase Ocean's Eleven - the real one - from 1960.
My DVD is the wide-screen version. It also comes with a complete replay of the film with voice-overs from Frank Jr. and Angie Dickinson.
Those roasts were outrageous. I remember two specifically: Joe Namath and Howard Cosell. We laffed our rears off.
Nothing today can even come close. We Baby Boomers were lucky to have had such great entertainers from the WWII generation to amuse us.
OMG,Check them all out.Foster steals the show as well.I was at least an hour laughing and I am still whipping the tears away.
I’ve been watching videos with him on You Tube since you made this thread.
I love the Dean Martin Roasts.
Even better than the roast OF Ronald Reagan is the roasting BY Ronald Reagan. He was a regular on roasts of many Hollywood greats, delivering deadpan punchlines like a pro.
Absolutely classic stuff.
Rickles jokes about Democrat Jesse Unruh, who ran against Reagan in 1970:
From Wikipedia:
“”He left the legislature to run for Governor against Ronald Reagan in 1970, then was a candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles in 1973. He lost both elections, but was elected State Treasurer in 1974, and served from 1975 until he died in office of prostate cancer on August 4, 1987.
Famous Quotes
“Money is the mother’s milk of politics.”
“If you can’t take their money, drink their liquor, fuck their women, and then come in here the next day and vote against them, you don’t belong here.” (Referring to lobbyists.)
Winning: “Winning isn’t everything but losing is nothing.” (said after losing the gubernatorial election in 1970)
God: “Anyone who thinks all this is an accident, has got to be some kind of stupid.” (about creation and the universe)
Disillusionment: “Who knows, who cares, why bother?” (On his death bed)
Principles: “Sometimes we must rise above principles.” (quoted by Herb Caen) “”
Is that Olympic swimming champion Mark Spitz making appearance in this Reagan roast?
LMAO, Rickles was a great speaker.
Bump.
That IS good, I own that one. If anyone wants to see an amazing hour and a half of complete gloriousness, get the Roast of Frank Sinatra; worth it alone for the Orson Welles dialogue, (Frank was Godfather to his child, as Orson points out) and the ALL-TIME personal and totally heartfelt and respectful comments of Dean as he introduces THE MAN at the end of the roast. Believe me it’s worth it. Jilly’s on the dais too, you can’t beat that either. While I’ve watched it on various occasions, t I kept thinking, what the hell was the backstage party like before and after.....Back when Men Were Men.
Great stuff. Thanks for posting.
I found this Barry Goldwater clip also. Too funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Csj0Ob4_uY&feature=related