Don Rickles Salutes Martin Scorsese at the AFI Life Achievement Award 

No, Don is not a Cadillac. He is a Lamborghini. (Great respect for Cadillacs. But I just thought the Lamborghini was another first-rate vehicle more akin to the speed that Don's mind operated at.)

It was 2 great artists acknowledging respect for each other. This is why Britain and America and there allies must always stay in power .freedom of expression is the,single most important liberty expression of democracy we have in the Western world.

Actually, when Don stood up and started talking..........he was going to be...........DON RICKLES!!!!!

Don knew how to do the roast perfectly, he knew how to do the sincerity perfectly... That man was such a freaking professional.

@chetan rakieten Can you explain what you mean with you are a cadilac cuz am not native speaker .

Pretty much me on a daily basis now

Fact

My life as an adult lol

He was the only one speaking the truth there.

Legend

Harvey Calvillo if you watch the video he says this about De Niro....

Man, just explain it

@Harvey Calvillo He's making fun of De Niro that the only person that thinks he's a great actor is himself. If you ask him, that's what he'll tell you.

@Harvey Calvillo I'll really dumb it down for ya. He's basically calling De Niro an egotistical prick. All in good fun of course.

@@FlexWheeler2nd Really! The guy didn't understand the line? Now I know where " I see dumb people came from!".

Thé parle moi

He was a master @ that.

Randy Aloha in reality, he probably was the biggest star there.

Rahul Mondal it is, really. He came before so many others.

@Rahul Mondal These name in that time is just like amatuer

@Rahul Mondal You don't know shit about movie industry you ass

@@pingukutepro Rickles wasnt just a showman. He wasnt nobody. He could make jokes around anyone even in hes youth but he knew what was going on back than. Its about respect, the kind of respect you have to earn. He did that along time ago. Way before anny of this.

yep

yes he would.

He should have stopped at the insults.

I disagree my friend. There was need for Don to get all mushy, but that's just me.

Christopher Sansone you clearly don't know Don.

He moves slow because he doesn’t need to move for anybody.

and Bonnie Raitt. She is such a great singer

Rest his soul peace, good actor, serious mobster role hi made

Fly high Paulie 🤍🫂

RIP Paulie. He’s showing all the other legends up there how to slice garlic so it just liquefies in the pan.

except Clint Eastwood.

And not offend anyone

I did once at my friends wedding, only a few people laughed and I ended up marrying one of the girls who did laugh

@@benjaminwurtz1811 😂😂😂😂 you're the real MVP my friend. Giannis who? !#

I can

Ehm he insulted plenty of people he didnt like. He was very bitter throughout life.

@@departmentofdate2263- you know nothing about Don Rickles.

Except now in 2019 Good Housekeeping is like Antifa Housekeeping.

@@departmentofdate2263 What the fuck are you blabbering about?

So he didn't like Clint Eastwood huh?

Only roasted those he loved

​@@stra998. That was a good one😂

yes, the part about his late mother (God rest her soul) just hits me right in the gut. Very bittersweet, Very Classy.

Absolutely, what a class ending. You can tell it really meant a lot to him.

Reminds me of Robin Williams. He goes off with jokes and burns in his speeches but always ends them humbly.

I agree

@@goodbadbill goddamn. still cant believe robin's gone. still the saddest celeb death to me

fischkopf I loved her in goodfellas. You could tell there was no acting there she was just being herself and I preferred watching that to a more well known actress putting on a 'performance'. I bet her and Rickles got on like a house on fire in Casino

Thanks for that info. I did not know.

that was really sweet of him it caught me of guard

Whenever I Re-watch this video I can't help but cry after knowing this. It makes this wonderful moment so much more beautiful.

She played Pesce's mother in Goodfellas.

Perfectly said dude👍

Yeah well said

Wrong

Thats a great line dude

There once was a thing around called respect and dignity

Absolutely inimitable style of comedy. There will never be another.

+Revolver I'd like to apologize for responding to your post.

Kroban3 LOL

good joke but now that he is dead i just say from bottom of my heart... fuck you :)

I agree.

ouh was probably

how true how true

He was

It was not just that I think, Don mentioning and paying tribute to his mother who had just passed away back then, took him aback a little and made him emotional. That expression on his face says alot.

The man who built his career with bold insults always gave the warmest compliments that cut through. That's a man of man.

And he gets humiliated by Pesci in a scene.

but NAILED that part! He wasn't "Rickles Plays a pitboss". he WAS the guy. no looks, glances or grimaces that would have broken character...just a great actor.

Kelly's Heroes was Rickles' high moment as an actor.

He did say it was a treat.

@@funkster007 that’s my favorite part! when Joe Pesci beats his head with a telephone😂 It's like he was trying to make fucking mash potatoes

how can you forget GEORGE CARLIN!!

Naughty America

George carlin was the same caliber..and Ricky Gervais now! They are all legends

A gifted director. One of the best.

25 years nows!

You made this comment 5 years ago and he didn't stop yet.Killers of the Flower Moon is coming.

He will make a film about another legend, Bob Marley.

@@beyondtheend9144 With Robert de Niro and Leo DiCaprio

100% agree. I know every word of Don's speech but laugh and get moved everytime I watch it.

@practicon1- yes but was he saved?? ✝✝✝

bad news :(

@@edwardsmith3532 who r u talking to?

@@ryanharrington6389 you. Scumbag

@@edwardsmith3532 whyyyyyy iiii ouuuttttaaaaaaaa

Some one get the defibrillator

I know Don Always ended with class

A T Morgan nice Story

A T Morgan it’s the one time that you actually want to be insulted by someone. I didn’t care how or why , don, just insult me !

I saw Rickles in a hotel show in Atlantic City In the early 1980s when I was a teenager. He was hysterical, insulting everyone at once with funny remarks, but he had a beautiful heart. Then throughout the performance, not once was he being mean or hurtful while he insulted person after person in the audience in the small venue where I saw him perform. Fantastic show.

@@nycinstyle TV

I'm not getting that joke , can you explain what it means? Sorry English is not my native language.

@@vozamaraktv-art5595 he was teasing scorsese being shorter in height

@@TheSkundertaker3 Oh, ok. Lol Thanks!

@@TheSkundertaker3 I'm pretty sure he said "see me" because his name would be in a phone book and Martin would have to book an appointment to see him

No, it’s a joke. He’s saying Scorsese is short and needs a phone book to sit on like a booster seat to see over the table. Maybe it’s an American thing, but it’s an old joke that old ladies need to sit on a phone book to see over the steering wheel of a car.

Where's AC? Is it across the river from DC?

@@darrenmizzi6072 Atlantic City NJ

That's what Australians do. Much respect, Don, from Down Under.

Was he cutting up your driving?

We listened to Howard Stern the whole time

Damn, so sensual

exactly

He left us today. RIP.

Fuck you

Jinx

Edward Smith fuck you son of a bitch

@Eduard Smith you keep saying 'fuck you' to many here. Maybe it's about time you go check yourself up. Frankly, for your benefit

class all around..

Cool app

Heyy. You alive bro?

Weird to see u here

@@ahmarsaeed6085 r

@@ahmarsaeed6085 r

i was born in the 80s so rickles was someone i learned because of youtube and watching old movies. but years a go i got a chance to see him. i was worries it was going to flop because hes much older. but OMG!!! at his age the man is still sharp as a whip and funny if not funnier than ever. he then came our with a book and then i got to see him again ..drove last min to RI to see him and got him to sing my book. he is so funny!! im so happy i got to see him because he really is very rare talent. while he was signing he was making fun of everyone around him we where all in tears laughing so hard!

Funny how?

DeNiro is one of the great actors of our time. Just ask him. XD

I was gonna say something but you said it all .

He was just rude, a very bitter man.

Scorceses face turned to that of a little boy. Beautiful.

You do realize he wasn’t serious when he said that don’t you?

@@mohamedashian604 You do realize that James is making a joke don't you?

What a stupid comment

You like to react to the audience reactions and laughter

I'm the same !!

Bigger risk that you'll miss him before he dies.

I was lucky enough to see him in 2015 when he came to the Sands Bethlehem. Hilarious man. I'll always remember that show.

That wasn't her first time acting she appeared in scorseses early films "who's that knocking at my door" and "mean streets"

@@johnLennon255 Yep. She's also the voice of Rupert Pupkin's mother in The King of Comedy.,

First ripped apart hilariously and then praised into heaven , you're gone .

@Max I’m still watching it and makes me laugh. 😂