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Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap.
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
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I never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, Hey, when do the broads come on? I got good at saying, Relax. Clear your skin up first. They called me the insult guy, but it's never mean-spirited. I'm just exaggerating everything about us and about life.
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Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
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I think if I took therapy, the doctor would quit. He'd just pick up the couch and walk out of the room.
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My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that.
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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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