Don Rickles Monologue - Saturday Night Live 

That’s priceless.

That's an awesome insult!

I love it - so jealous!

HAHAhahaa thank you for this story drop

he had the quickest quips in the biz.

It would of been a honour

It's By LAW!

baddmanaz I bet he was insured by Lloyds of London to insult everyone.

It’s in his contract.

I envied him...he had carte blanche to insult people and get thanked and paid for it. If we insult people we get punched in the nose.

@@bobzani - For sure it was Rickles that I heard tell it.

I heard that same story - but it was Shecky Greene telling it.

@@ROGER2095 Yes. It was Shecky Greene, and it really happened. A friend of mine read the Sinatra biography, and he said so

@@ROGER2095 Definitely a rickles line

Rickles actually had a Twitter account in his final years. One of his actual tweets: "I miss Frank Sinatra. He used to slap me to relax!"

I replayed it so many times and everytime it was even more hilarious. What an absolute legend!

"... I tell you this..."

just out of nowhere its genius.

i think he was pointing at Madden!

@@stephensoldner Yep, there was no one else in that general area as big as Madden. LOL

He has comedic vision. He knows where he’s going and we follow.

Every word! And don't want to blink watching him! So fascinating thinking of other legends (see R Williams) who came after him, the inspiration they took from Rickles is easy to see...

His style goes way back to the vaudeville days...Catskills, burlesque. You had to be quick in your delivery because you only had so much time to make 'em laugh before the next act, stripper, or main attraction. Think Henny Youngman, Rodney Dangerfield...

when the best way to avoid getting your ass kicked regularly is by being funnier than anyone else you learn quickly.

@@garyaugustus1009 ur right. very vaudevillian.

My father died just last June, Rest In Peace to our old men and to Don. Glad you have the memories

​@@joeyscerbo7776 May for mine. We were tight. Not to the memories stage yet, but yeah, super glad I have them

Do you think Don's up there in heaven making fun of God, Jesus & the apostles or is he in Hell telling jokes about the Devil?

Wow! This was so captivating I TOTALLY forgot out was supposed to be SNL!!! 🤔

That’s because no one else could or can to this day. I grew up loving Mr.Warmth and I miss him dearly.

This is what performing is all about. Rickles was a master who perfected his craft. He could say anything--even now--and the audience would drink it in like ambrosia. That's called RESPECT.

Takes an incredible amount of talent and experience to pull that off. He was a master. Saw him perform at Tahoe in 1970....laughed so hard it hurt.

He had no filter but everybody in the business respected him.

Same, he's great.

Same!

Omg. You are in for a treat!

Hold up!!! You're just learning of Rickles....please tell me you watched him roast ppl with Dean Martin.

Rickles is someone who is quick with his words and responses. Do me a favor......look up Foster Brooks on Dean Martin's Roast....TRUST ME!!!

ABSOLUTELY!!!!

If the host is any good it should mostly be that way all the time.

I remember this night so well - we talked about it all week !!

Agreed, Danyal. I wonder if that is why SNL has stopped using comedy icons. They don't want to be upstaged. There is a Facebook group that wants to see Carol Burnett host SNL. Every woman on that show owes Carol Burnett a debt of gratitude, but NBC ignores it!

@@AmosPressley Wow!! Carol Burnett!! Now that would be an Awesome episode!

ROGER2095 - EASILY!!!

He basically did. If you watch the whole episode, Rickles pretty much sabotaged most of the sketches. He kept ad-libbing, breaking character, and confusing the hell out of the cast.

No problem for Don!

He would be funnier than the entire current cast they have.

And it would've been the best show since the late '70s.

Jeff Ross is No Where in HELL Close to This Perfection! Ross is just Funny Vulgar!

Rickles got away with it because deep down you knew he really loved you. One of my favorite lines of his is: "You know, Larry, you and I have known each other a long time now and frankly,... I've never liked you." He may have said that to either Larry King or Regis (who liked to be called Larry) both laughed until they died. Seriously.

Never get away with it now, no matter what. First black, Mex, Chinese or homosexual insult...CANCELED. A different and far scarier country than anytime in our history, including 1861.

One day we'll all be cancelled just because we were aware of this video even if we never watched it. That's way too scary because it could happen. That's fascism!

@Marc Petrie Every day for them is opposite day. Anti fascist is fascist. If they're woke that just means they are really ASLEEP. One day they will be rudely awakened into a bloody nightmare. Hopefully, we won't be around for that.

Yes.

Tru' Dat!!!

So true it hurts.

Scourge to All Humanity !

fuck the new cast - the last few iterations. they are sorry leftist naive morons! comedy needs to confront, expose, educate and entertain and they fail on those fronts.

The best monologue of snl was norm Macdonald

Sure beats Steven Segal's

Rickles, Norm, Chappelle, Robin Williams, Galifianakis… legendary stand ups who killed in their SNL monologues. Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor were excellent, too

ha ha ha

God, I love that idea!!! I grew up with Johnny Carson, Dangerfield, Rickles, Pryor, Carlin, etc. No one left anymore ☹️

Merch Marine He’s so full of shit that he needs it everyday!

@@despicableme8762 - Bill Burr!

Absolutely! Perfect solution*

LOL That was a good one. Btw I believe Don was in the Navy during the war.

Fun Fact: The Italians were allied with Nazi Germany in World War II.

@@macmacreynolds8712 That needs to be said bc most young people dont give a crap about history.

"More Italians fought in World War II than any other ethnic group"

@@samo619 Correction: More Italians surrendered in World War II than any other ethnic group.

he was quick

@@rahard Sharp as a ...something...

Met Don back stage Harrahs casino /hotel lake Tahoe. One of the most nicest human beings in the entertainment world . Funny but insulting in a nice way. Everyone wants to be insulted by him as it was a sign that he liked you .

wanna see a man compare the taste of various waters?

@Honest Person Lorne Michaels is a legend.......in his own mind.

I know! I never saw this before!

if you can find the other clips he is constantly getting Joe Piscopo to break and there is a running gag throughout the whole show with the two of them. hysterical!

@@ggeer It's probably in a season of SNL Michaels won't release, he's such a pompous ass.

Yes that is the key to not letting life getting you down. You can always find something good about your life no matter what is happening. In 1974 I broke my ankle and had 6 screws and a plate put in. 2 good things happen, I only had to wash my sox 1/2 as often. I was on crutches for 12 months they wore all the hair out of my arm pits saved on right guard. The world right now is just thinking about all the bad things happening and not looking at all the good that is way more than the bad because the press keeps only talking about the bad and ignoring all the good.

Well said on both of your comments. Why everybody is so butthurt now I don't understand. Yes life sucks sometimes, but you gotta be able to laugh at life and yourself occasionally, otherwise you'll be a miserable prick/bitch for the rest of your life.

I saw him!! He must have just spotted him and made the joke

He's there in the audience. He certainly isn't working on making Madden the video game worth buying.

@realworldtalking Good get the fuck outta here.

@@seanstandup9157 It was 1984.

and cat videos

That's amazing 💖💯👏

Too many crybabies these days. Lol

True great

When he was coming up in the business, the people he made fun of lived knowing people would make fun of them and because of our culture they just had to learn to live with it. As time went by, those same people started to believe they have value beyond just being the butt of somebody's joke and with the support of people who agreed with them, started to stand up for themselves. To counter that 'revolution' right wingers came up with a word to describe them.....WOKE, which people like that do when they have no acceptable reasons for thinking or acting the way they do. I am not knocking Don. Due to the entirety of his routine, it is much easier to accept what he says, but in a sense, his making fun using stereotypes such as the interaction with the Chinese lady, is out of place in a world that has, literally 'woke' up to the insensitivity of that type of humor. R.I.P Don.

@@normanacree1635 Nope . "Woke" is a term used to describe an excuse dreamed up by emotionally disturbed spoiled churls who like to ruin everyone else's party, bully people, and break their toys while standing behind the false justification of self-righteous virute signaling. So-called "pprogressives" are miserable, hateful people, and they try to drag everyone else down with them. The only good ones are in cemeteries.

One in a million? How about one in 80 million? I think you would have to look at waaaaay more than a million people to find somebody else like him. R.I.P. Don.

"Merchant of venom"

"Black-belt in hatred"

'Duke of Dager'

There’s a clip of him on the View. They talked about his sense of humor and surprisingly Whoopi and company were respectful

Yeah... I'm Pete Johnson, but thanks, I've gotten that 3 times a day for ten years.

Except Sinatra. Only light jests, but nothing like how he treated everyone else. Rickles had to wait until Sinatra died, and then some more time, for him to tell jokes about Sinatra's mob-ties.

@@igunashiodesu Yup

@@igunashiodesu Not true. He would go at Sinatra unlike anyone else would, and Sinatra loved it.

@@mattlinx2 holy Jesus you're right ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HeqzJDuQBcA.html I was paraphrasing a quote I heard him say at a talk show some time ago (not Carson though).

Ummm Joan Rivers anyone? She did mostly self deprecation but she also was an insult comic in her day.

Thinking the same thing! I bet this act would work today. You can't say that about many of them.

no punchlines. no hits. no tags. no zingers. any derp could roast this wannabe jester. stick to voice over work.

@@Xxd04xX I don’t think this is his best work, but I’ll agree to disagree on the overall quality of his work. His insult comedy was top notch, and it’s a damn shame he’s gone.

Well yumpin yimminy.

was thinking the same thing. The damage to the equipment, the loud thumps in his ear. The sound guy must have had a heart attack.

Invented the mic drop?

@@unityostara6380 I'd say so. I saw him doing it in 1972 when he guest hosted The Tonight Show.

@@thomasthomas2418 would love to see that! I was born in 1979 so I might have missed that. My Oma would always let me stay up for Johnny Carson's monologues.

I found him right after he passed. He was in an episode of Comedians in cars getting coffee with Jerry Seinfeld. I knew him from Toy Story, but it wasn't until then when I realized he was a legendary act and basically part of the Rat Pack. I watched old clips during school and I loved hearing his stories.

You two young people really missed out. But thank goodness for RU-vid so you can see this great comedian at his very best.

Larry Shackle seriously though.. if it wasn’t for RU-vid, I would have never found out about Don Rickles.

@@datboi1971 Same here. Not to mention the decades of show appearances and roasts.

Even in his final years, when his body began to betray him, his mind was still razor sharp.

I don't remember when Peacock added all episodes, but if it was after this comment, you can watch it now on the free tier! (It'll probably have a bunch of sketches missing because of music licenses though.)

Well this was the SNL era where the cast was TRASH, and i believe the last year before Lorne Michaels came back to his reign.. early to mid 80s was just a weird time, a lot of cast turnaround. Eddie Murphy was the best thing they had during this time, until 87-88 when they finally got the groove back.

Sad but true. That's when comedy was truly comedy. No one got butt hurt over a joke like they do now.

There’s too many holes in your cheese.

@@kyleross5019 The Swiss! Don, that's the Swiss! Oh, that's the joke?

@@tenhirankei as quick as his mind was Switzerland and Sweden both start out with the same two letters so he definitely could have fixed that joke up in another 30 seconds

I couldn't tell if it was John Madden or John Candy. Amazing similarities.

And also the legendary Brandon Tartikoff

back in his day "politically incorrect" didn't exist....now that everyone is a victim in one way or another, he wouldn't have had a career. Hope people realize that this woke crap is ruining much of what binded us all together.

@@fishpimp8584 Do you really think it 'binded' us with all the people being made fun of? You sure must have a warped mind to think the people being made fun of were made to feel part of the group when they were the butt of jokes. Oh, nice try making it seem like people are just whining when they protest being made fun of.

@@normanacree1635 You are precisely what's wrong with society today. It's ok to laugh and not view every word as some type of personal affront. Relax and try to remember everyone isn't always a victim of hatred or prejudice. First of all, he wasn't insulting people out of malice or prejudice; rather, he simply tried to make people laugh and entertain folks by joking about EVERYBODYS stereotypes, imperfections, etc. Obviously, it was well received or he never would have lasted 7 decades or so. Do you think people who attended his shows weren't aware of his schtick? His nickname was the sultan of swat. He always ended his "routine" by saying how much he respected those he was joking about. He may not be your cup of tea, so don't watch. But give me a break with your woke BS. Must be tough going through life so serious. Finally, regarding your idiotic comment about having a warped mind, this country is far more divided today, in my opinion, than in his day due to all the cancel culture and woke nonsense.

randomswedishdude maybe he just decided to remain neutral to you?

Maybe that was actually the joke? :)

@@moisestorresgarcia8179 I hope so :)

Well you are just not able to put enough screws in your Ikea furniture, some screws lost I guess.Shame that once proud Swedes who went with mighty ships to pillage, rape and kill have become pussies.

@@Pfirtzer Have you been to Sweden lately? Hint: The vikings didn't take back the ugly ones

+Philip NGIMBIS you're also nothing

Sure there's a few guys who would love to roast you 😝😜

Ha ha ha ha...

You want to be roasted?Visit some tribe in Africa, they still have canibals over there, hope you are still young meat.

Don will take you home again caitlin.

~ Breathe. *