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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.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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Regis Philbin is very successful in his own right. We have a new thing where he have chairs and we sit and talk to each other about my career and his career. It works pretty well if I do say so.
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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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Half the battle is that people have to like you before you say one joke, one bit of humor.
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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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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 have to have energy because I have a lot of expenses. A couple of cars, couple of dogs and a big estate.
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I've never walked off stage and said, I shouldn't have done that. Because when you do what I do, you're like a fighter. You throw the right hand and say, That's what got me to this dance. You can't have doubt. If you have doubt, there's no show.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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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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Who am I to judge is what I say. I'm 90 years old, for crying out loud, and I don't sit in any chariot.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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