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My whole act is off the top of my head.

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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
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Queens
New York
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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Everything I do on stage, I made up in saloons. I started doing it in front of people, and that became my performance. I never had writers.
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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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To my knowledge, I was the first guy really to do what I do. And then later on different comedians started trying doing it.
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In the old days, that was my ad-lib for hecklers in the joints I worked. It stuck with me. I hardly say it now, say, to fans, even though people do send me hockey pucks.
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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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I think they [Martin Scorsese, Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra] liked my honesty. My personality. For that, they always treated me great. I, in turn, treated them great. No secret about it. My being who I am - that is 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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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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I would describe myself as a guy that's very normal but has the tendency to rib people, but never in a mean-spirited way.
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