David luff ... So true when I am having g choric pain going on in my body. I get on RU-vid and watch a few of these and it really dose ease the pain to laugh
There is a difference, dear. Don Rickles did it with class. He wasn't offended when someone came back at him with an equally smart-alec remark. He could take it. It's always said, if you can't take it, then don't dish it out!
@David Clark I think the fact that America/ Hollywood money is kind of like a second income to him is what gives him to balls to repeatedly do that. "I'm a burn bridges?... oh well plenty of bridges I built in Europe."
@David Vazquez Rickles does it with style and want's people to smile. Gervais simply want's to hurt and insult people. Even though the jokes were meant as an insult, the way he did it (Rickles) made people laugh.
I love how on every single one of these roasts, Don Rickles manages to get the same joke in about Bob Hope being there because there is no war on. Cracks me up every single time.
I love these types of roasts! They were funny. People back then had a thick skin and didn’t get offended easily. When a guest or audience member walked into an event like that, they expected to have a joke(s) be made about them. Back then getting roasted by Ron Rickles was an honor and people loved him and respected him. It was always non-stop laughter with him. He was a true comical genius.
Saw Don Rickles in Vegas years ago.....it was the only show that I literally cried from laughing so hard! There was a Mexican gentleman in the audience and Don Said "are you a Mexican?" the guy said yes and Rickles said "Here's some mud, go finish your house!" thought I was gonna die!!
Calling Nipsy a Spade and Nipsy throwing it back to Rickles who says they will leave him alone because he tap dances is so damn good. Today they would crucify them for it.
Lucille Ball loved the Ruth Buzzi lip sync with Don at the end! Classic. She was awesome. I love the real down to earth no make wrong we are all in it together roasts (laughing together connections) during this time.
Love Frank Sinatra or hate him, either way you still gotta give props to "the Chairman of the Board" for promoting Don in Don's early stand-up comedy career and giving Don a path to, and a permanent spot in, American pop culture.
@@joeygonzo Sinatra could be the world's biggest A-hole when he had a mind to be, but he had his redeeming qualities, too. A huge ego, yet not afraid to stand up for others like people of color who were marginalized and discriminated against. Frank's pro civil rights stance covers a multitude of his sins, in my book.
@@vincentsartain3061 I think because Frank was Italian and his parents and family were discriminated upon in NY, he hated bigotry. He had dinner with Lena Horne one time and the waitress refused to serve Lena. Frank hit the roof and straightened that bitch waitress. Sammy and Lena could also not stay at the Hilton when they fronted for Frank. Frank made them check them in.
Was just a kid when all these roast came out in tv. Never appreciated it until now I’m almost 50 and realize this truly was the golden age of TV. Now we are stuck with kimmel etc
Ya and fallen and all the other fakes ....laughfter back then wasnt forced and people accepted race jokes , its funny we think we are moving forward but really we are more sensitive on any comment made on race now and we are going backwards , i cant make 1 joke about any race now or im racist , sad but true .
@Gloria Garcia hey snowflakes...back then perhaps its not because if it did, there could have been riot immediately. but then speaking with people like you and those snowflakes, it is useless.
What a wonderful time we ALL had...it was PRICELESS and will not come back....I and everybody else will never forget and so glad to live through these times...mg do I miss it...
Siegrid Thomas I hear you. I am more of an 80s child, but I do have some memories from the 70s. Everything was different, more innocent. No DirectTv with steep fees. No internet, just 3 public networks from which one could watch lovely shows. Yes, I do miss it as well @Siegrid Thomas.
Don Rickles was hilarious!! There will never be people as funny as him,Rodney Dangerfield ,Ruth Buzzi and phyllis Diller to name a few! The great ones.
I love that Don goes down the list and that no one is off-limits. And you can tell everyone there is having a good laugh by the facial expressions. People today really need to get off their high horses and look at comedy in general. Comedians make fun of everyone and everything around them.
I think we could all learn something from Don Rickles. Hope he knew what a joy he was to so many. Love how at the end of all the roasts he shows what a caring and loving man he really was. Miss him❣️❣️
The look of surprise, the shocked glee and happiness at Rickles' boldness and quick wit. Wonder and joy is displayed here; A true glimpse of the real America, a sense of freedom and liberty that offers both nostalgia and yearning: days that passed for all of us to remember. Rickles lives on here, and with our smiles is immortal.
@@silverfox389 African Americans invented tap dancing during the slavery days to outwardly appear "happy" or "entertaining the white masters" but using the tapping noises to signal their fellows without the whites being privy. Before long, the tap dance became a standard in stage entertainment and white entertainers latched on to the new dance and incorporated it into their acts. But getting back to Don's comeback to Nipsey: sometimes Don's jokes fly over my head, too, and on this one I'm left guessing that Don's implying that Nipsey's "threat" of sending a mob to Don's house will be warded off when Don entertains the mob with a tap dance on the rooftop.
@@vincentsartain3061 I think you're giving Rickles too much credit. He was basically just saying "Haha, black folks and tap-dancing are related things."
@@kidlitfanful Could be, but somehow his entertainment colleagues of color weren't bothered. And of course most of the jokes were scripted and probably even rehearsed between Don and Nipsey and other black guest stars. Could be that in the several years following the civil rights movement that there was a honeymoon of sorts between the black community and most of white society. To be honest I think the 70's were the best decade as far as race relations go
In my opinion, ' Mr Warmth ' around that age was truly at the top of his 'game'...DAMN he was so good. RIP Mr Rickles, they'll never be another like you, ever...
Ruth Buzzi does not get enough credit for being the great comedienne that she is. She was great on "Laugh In" playing aside the great Arty Johnson's (May he rest in peace!) "Dirty Old Man". She can sing. And she's still going strong at the age of 85.
Much like today. Although we did have less whiny right wingers constantly whining about every little thing famous people do (unless they fall in line with right wing agendas, then they're infallible).
Some people deserves to live forever, this generation was the best one , this is what they mean when they said ladies and gentlemen, RIP ladies and gentlemen 🙏
Genius, pure comic genius, and when she snogged him, well I fell off my chair!!! This is what this world needs right now, comic genius! XX ouch! My sides are hurting I've laughed so much!!!!
Ruth was never what you would call a classic beauty. But you need to see her on “Laugh In” when she wasn’t playing her spinster character. She held her own with Goldie Hawn when it came to wearing miniskirts and bathing suits.
He stated in his book that he hated racism and that the greatest way to combat it was to turn it into humor. If you could make people laugh, there was no malice or hatred. He took racism and turned it on its head. He knew you couldn't get rid of it, but he proved you could take racism and remove the hate from it. Sadly the world didn't catch on
the troops will be out in front of your house tomorrow.... priceless.... God, I miss this levity and instinct for humor.... and Ruth Buzzie...... wow.... we had it all and didn't realize it...... all the best from Bellows Falls, Vermont
@sherry quilter. Not entirely true. Don Rickles did call the black man “a spade”; but not only was it obviously meant and accepted as a joke and the black man gave a come back.
Now we have someone like you always pointing out that the joke was never on Whitefolks unless they were Jews, Italians or Irish. In other words ETHNICS but never WASPS. Haha ha
Never ever be another don rickles in my lifetime and maybe many in the future. All the people sitting on the stage are gone. But most of them are Legends jack Benny Lucy ball dean Martin and Henry Fonda. Seeing them now it is hard to believe there gone so many years. But don rickles was someone special to me. Loved this man always wanted to see him live never did. Really sad when he passed.
