@@rahul-qm9fi I worked with him in the 80s. This particular moment was from 1985. I was an editor on the show and I got to see all of the material that we never used. I used to sit in the audience and watch them shoot. He was the funniest guy that ever lived. Some people felt insulting humor wasn’t really a form of humor, but it worked for him. When he started out doing clubs in the early 1960s, he would do regular jokes like everyone else but it never really amounted to much for him.Then one night somebody in the audience made a comment and Don made a crass insulting remark and everybody laughed. Suddenly he realized he could get laughs by insulting people. And did it for decades!
"Some polack thinks it's a barbecue" the days of a comedian saying something like that are long gone. If they said that today it would go viral on the internet. Then for the next three months they would be going to every Polish-American society club as part of there apology tour.
You might say l had too much time on my hands during the recent lost year but l went through just about everything l could find on this guy and l have a new respect for him and what he did. He was hardly the first "insult" comic but l believe he was the first who forced people, in a subtle way to mentally examine their beliefs and prejudice in a way no one has since. And for that l commend him. I came across a interesting photo of Don with Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen with their arms around each other. RIP Mr. Warmth.
I was in LA in the eighties and it went in A Bob Hope Super Bowl special where Don Rickles was on the show. It was filmed on the same stage that they filmed the tonight show with Johnny Carson. They had multiple setups whereas they had to change the backgrounds etc etc. Bob hope was reading directly from cue card's. Whereas Rickles for the most part never went backstage. During the setups He would hang out in the audience joke after Joke after Joke after Joke. The entire audience couldn't breathe for laughing so hard. He blew my mind how funny he was. Off camera he held nothing back.
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@@daman7387 Really. He made fun of a made man who came to his dressing room after the show and threatened him. Don had made disparaging remarks about the mobsters girlfriend. Don let the right people know and the very next night that mobster laughed his ass off at the very same joke. Someone had talked to him. Or once he had his hotel room robbed while performing. A few days later most of what he lost was anonymously returned. Again, someone had a "talk" with that burglar. Regards.
