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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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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
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Donald Jay Rickles
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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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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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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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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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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
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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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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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My style is my personality. It's always been that way. Being a wiseguy and having fun. It's always been that way for me, when I was in high school, and in the Navy. It's not something I rehearse.
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I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.
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When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.
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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 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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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I don't feel an obligation to give everyone a hard time, but when they're important people, it's fun.
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Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.
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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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When you talk about George Burns you're talking about a living legend . . . well, a legend, anyhow.
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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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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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Smartphones. Who cares? Smartphones. I only have dummy phones.
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