Don Rickles on CBS Late Show,he's the man,

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[Dookus]

1. I've never been a big fan

but you gotta give him credit. Few comics have survived as long as he has.

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3. You freaking hockey puck.

[medeak]

2. thanks ... will watch

always remember him for having melt down at my Dad when he parked in his parking spot in Vegas.

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5. oops...that was Buddy Hackett

(called my Dad...don't want to disparage the wrong person)

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4. He is a survivor

He just had to step on the sensitivities of more than a few of his audience members to get this far. I don't think his race-baiting schtick would go over so well these days. Probably didn't go over so well thirty years ago, either, if you were a black, Mexican, or some other type of person he targeted.


Trivia: he was the voice of Mr. Potato Head in Toy Story

[Floogeldy]

6. You've got to understand the 60's and 70's to understand Rickles

He made it okay for us to accept the differences between races and cultures by highlighting them and making fun of silly prejudices.

Maybe you had to have been there. It was beautiful.

B-)

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7. No, that was Lenny Bruce

Okay, maybe I am wrong, but this humor doesn't rub me right:



"I'm a Jew, and you're a Mexican," Rickles begins. "I say this from heart: A Negro can move into my neighborhood, you can't." Ten minutes later, he's targeting Canadians, Arabs, Germans, Poles and Jews. The laughter is slow to ripple, largely liquor-induced. "Excuse me sir, what is your nationality? I know, it's a big word. Lady, you here on vacation? And you're sitting next to the Mexican? You've taken your shots? I don't know what this is all about, you annoying woman. Get a job at a fruit stand. Didn't I see you during the war hanging around the embarkation point in a torn sweater? You gotta be a Jew, lady - it's 105 degrees in here and you're the only one with a mink stole. If it weren't for the Mexicans, we wouldn't have filth."


http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/entertainers/comic/don-rickles/

Oh well, I can't say that I know him well enough and I will just have to take your word for it.