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If I were to insult people and mean it, that wouldn't be funny.
Don Rickles
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Don Rickles
Age: 90 †
Born: 1926
Born: May 8
Died: 2017
Died: April 6
Actor
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Queens
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Donald Jay Rickles
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Donald J. Rickles
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I do situations and make fun of authority and life.
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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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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 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 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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You've got to be able to sell yourself.
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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 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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My whole act is off the top of my head.
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Well, I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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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 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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It takes many years to be a great comedian.
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I can sit all day in a comfortable chair and watch ball games, but I don't need a blanket.
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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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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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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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To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.
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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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