Don Rickles with his father before shipping out for service in WWII. March 1943.
Loved him. Always made me laugh. R.I.P., Don Rickles.
RIP Crazy Guy.. You were a lot of fun
Sorry to see him go. He was original and brave in an era where many comedians (not all) were sheep and followed the herd. RIP Don.
Special snowflakes of today could not handle his kind of humor. They would cry racist.
Listen,you hockey puck!
Kids today would be “triggered” by his ascerbic wit.
Snowflakes.
Sad to know we lost a legend
I saw him live. We got sat up front. I think it was a setup. I’m tall and big, and he looked at me and said I should put a window on my face and become a building. Loved Rickles.
He was wonderful. Rest in peace, Mr. Rickles.
Early life
Rickles was born Donald Jay Rickles in the New York City borough of Queens on May 8, 1926,[1] to Max Rickles (1897–1953), who emigrated in 1903 with his parents Joseph and Frances Rickles (Richters) from Kaunas, Lithuania (then in the Russian Empire), and Etta (Feldman) Rickles (1901–1984), born in New York to immigrant parents from the Austrian Empire. His family was Jewish and spoke Yiddish at home. Rickles grew up in the Jackson Heights area.
After graduating from Newtown High School, Rickles enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II on the motor torpedo boat tender USS Cyrene (AGP-13) as a seaman first class. He was honorably discharged in 1946. Two years later, intending to be a dramatic actor, he studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and then played bit parts on television. Frustrated by a lack of acting work, Rickles began performing stand-up comedy in clubs in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles. He became known as an insult comedian when he responded to his hecklers. The audience enjoyed these insults more than his prepared material, and he incorporated them into his act. When he began his career in the early 1950s, he started calling ill-mannered members of the audience “hockey pucks”.
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Don Rickles with his father before shipping out for service in WWII. March 1943.
One of the best and a type of humor that would be forbidden in today’s PC world. Amazingly, he was left of center politically.
Sad and shocking news since I haven’t been watching TV. As Don said, “I kid because I love.”
The current generation can’t understand that.
“Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I’m not a black.”
“Asians are nice people, but they burn a lot of shirts.”
“Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?”
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My husband and I saw him in Las Vegas. He was so funny.
M wife and I will never forget the night at the Sahara Hotel where Don Rickles got her up on stage and they”danced.” After doing a couple of hours, and getting every ethnicity in the room, he sat down on the edge of the stage, came out of character and talked about his views about life and people and how his comedy was just that. He was forever engrained in our minds eyes as a very different man than he portrayed as a comedian. Bless you Don, Godspeed. You did good!
RIP Don... You’ll have GOD laughing...
The other two in person events...George Karlin & Henny Youngman. I was in pain from laughing so hard.
Finally, Rickles can roll over in his grave at the way comedy has gone downhill since the PC speech police assumed power.