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It takes many years to be a great comedian.

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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
Comedian
Dancer
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Queens
New York
Donald Jay Rickles
Don Jay Rickles
Donald Rickles
Donald J. Rickles
Don J. Rickles
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I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
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I always rib people, but nobody ever gives me a hard time. I don't know why. Maybe they're afraid of what I might say. There's probably a lesson in that somewhere, but I don't know what it is.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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When you do see me, you'll get the idea from when you see me that it's all off the top of my head. A lot of it is a beginning, middle and the end. But it's different every night. I have a lot of jokes in my back pocket I've said over the years.
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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.
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I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.
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It's just to break things up between stand-up gigs. I would only do it periodically. Maybe just an East Coast thing.
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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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When you stand alone and sell yourself, you can't please everyone. But when you're different, you can last.
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I was nice to the people in the Philippines for the two and a half years I was there, because I knew even­tually I'd have to kiss up to them so my grandchildren could have toys.
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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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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.
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The transformation has been unbelievable. When I started here, I worked in a place where the Sky Room was on the second floor.
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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I always enjoy being full of fun, but I have my serious moments. Some women go for the studious kind of guy, I certainly was not that. If a girl is looking for somebody different and maybe a little more exciting for themselves - someone more on the fun side, I would suggest that they look for a type like Don Rickles.
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