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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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Yeah, I make fun of blacks, and why not? I'm not a black.
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I've never had guys sit me down and say this is what you've got to do. It's my personality that makes me one of a kind, and I believe that.
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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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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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You throw your best punch, otherwise don't do it.
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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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I never went out looking for glory.
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The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.
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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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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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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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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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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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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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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Frank Sinatra enjoyed my humor, so I could say almost anything to him. I mean, within reason.
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Some people call me a legend and the last of the greats, and I appreciate it.
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Hell, do I remember the first joke? I was never a jokester.
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