First Time Watching Don Rickles!!! 

The guy you said you did'nt know when Don said "this hand is bothering me" is Billy Graham and he was an evangelist preacher so I guess he was asking for prayer for his hand jokingly.

This was a great comp. It's very hard to get some of the jokes when you don't know any of the people he's roasting. But keep going with Don. He's truly a legend!

The thing about Rickles is that no one could be offended by him, because his humor was always good-spirited and playful, and everyone knew that. He made absolutely everyone laugh. Wonderful guy.

Billy Graham was a well-known evangelist, so the joke is Rickles wants him to faith heal his (Rickle's) troublesome hand. Charlton Heston was a famous actor who's signature role was Moses in The Ten Commandments film.

He was great because he roasted absolutely everyone EQUALLY! Everybody loved Don; he was a true gentleman.

Don was great at teaching us it's okay to laugh at yourself. And the insults were the act. The real Don was a kind and generous soul who was quick yo help anyone in need.

I highly recommend watching Kelly's Heros. Great flick ... all star cast Clint Eastwood Donald Sutherland many others

Don Rickles was Jewish, oh my gosh no way would this go these days but seeing you laugh Silas is making my day!!

The guy he was kissing is Frank Sinatra. One of the greatest singers of his time. It's widely believed Frank had very high connections to the mob, so if you looked back at some of his jokes, they contained fear from the mob. Maybe that's why some of the kisses? Or the fact that Italians greet each other with kisses on the cheek. Don went straight for the lips. 🤣🤣

People knew how to laugh and not take things personally because they knew it was humor.

Rickels was brilliant. Much of that humor was timely so hard to grasp now if you weren't around then. I was laughing so hard...lol.

Johnny Carson was and will always be the King of Late Night.

I was watching some of his stuff just last night. Always fun to listen to him. 👍👍

Silas Bailey - I am so glad you watched this and enjoyed it. I saw Don Rickles three years to the day before he died. I was sitting in my chair next to two gentlemen originally from Australia. They turned out to be a gay married couple, and seeing Don was on their bucket list. When some of the audience seemed a little more uptight about some jokes, these two guys were laughing the loudest. I'm glad I got to see Mr. Rickles in person. The one thing he asked his fellow younger performers was, "keep my name alive". When younger people like yourself watch these and enjoy these videos as much as you did and you understand he wasn't out to hurt anyone, you're doing exactly what Mr. Rickles wanted - keeping his name alive.

The definition of savage cutting humour.

It's good that you can watch this stuff without getting offended, this comedy could NOT be done today. Also, if you haven't yet, i highly recommend checking out Mitch Hedberg.

Charlton Heston played Moses in a movie.

It was a different world, as you can see watching comedians from Abbott and Costello to Rodney Dangerfield, Don Rickles, Richard Pryor, and George Carlin, to name a few.. glad you can see great humor and love it.

Just so you better understand the context, people, and references in this... -- The little kid who introduced Don Rickles was Webster, a pint-size child actor who had his own TV sitcom ("Webster"). -- The Rev. Billy Graham was a pre-eminent Christian leader and evangelist. Don mentioning that his hand was bothering him alluded to Billy being known as a monumental prayer warrior, even at times calling on God to miraculously heal people's infirmities. -- Actor Charlton Heston starred as Moses in the movie "The Ten Commandments," a blockbuster film for its time. -- Late night talk show host Johnny Carson was married three times, I believe all to women named Joanna... so that made Don's burn about "a couple of warmups" all the more perfect. -- Frank Sinatra was a smooth, popular singer who was part of what was known as "The Rat Pack," which included a number of singers and actors such as Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. (both on the dias that night) and others. Frank was reputed to have mob connections, so if you crossed him, you might be risking retribution. Only Don could get away with roasting Frank and everybody else. It wasn't that Rickles had no filter. His burns were purposeful for the comedy and even-handedly applied across a spectrum that might include hilarious cracks about such things as a person's purported skills, intelligence, or fame; their behavior; looks; race; religion... you name it. No one was safe from his jokes. It didn't matter if you were President or held other public office; a popular and extremely talented singer; a fellow comedian; a host; a star of stage, screen, or television; young or old; of particular physical appearance; a friend; someone's wife or husband; or a member of the audience. It was always rapid-fire and in front of that person or the one directly related to that person... and was always for his comedy shtick, not an attack ever intended personally or maliciously. Don didn't have a malicious bone in his body.

You know how to pick the greats Silas! Yeah, Don was from another place and time, but he always preached that we have to be able to laugh at ourselves. He was right. All we're doing today is suppressing things that should be said openly and discussed. It just builds more resentment not doing it. The thing with Don is you have to know a lot about his era to understand much of it. He was hilarious and ironically, it was common knowledge that he was actually a very sweet man family man.

This was awesome Silas! Gonna watch it again later 👍

@2:06 -- Webster. He had a hit television series. @2:44 -- Secretary Shultz. -- Secretary of Labor, in the Nixon administration. -- Secretary of State, in the Reagan administration. @3:02 -- Billy Graham. Famous minister. Hence, Rickles' "heal my hand" joke. @3:16 -- Charlton Heston. Stared in numerous top rated movies. Many rate his performance in "The Ten Commandments" to be his best performance of all time, where he played Moses. Also, "The Ten Commandments" is ranked as one of the best movies of all time. It was released in 1956, and is aired annually during the Jewish "Passover" holiday. Hence, the "Moses" joke. His jokes lose their meaning, when you do not know the person that he is insulting. That compilation of Rickles covers, perhaps, 1% of his greatest insults. What made Rickles such a hit, was not only his hilarious lines, but also his timing. His timing was impeccable, and his timing was lightning fast. You got a taste of it @16:43, when it took him zero seconds to slap Julia Roberts. When you spoke up to Rickles, you got destroyed. Rickles also knew exactly when it was best to wait. Rickles was at his best when someone took a shot back at him. Alas, few people did, because they knew that they would be destroyed. But always in fun. As to Rickles not having a filter... he absolutely did. He was always clean. He never used foul language. He never made it personal in a mean way. To folks that were born in the last 20 years, it might seem like he has no filter. That is because in the last 5 to 10 years, the "everything offends me" woke folks have been trying to censor everything and cancel everyone, for even a hint of a taboo word -- and the words keep changing, to cancel more people. Cancel culture is their bible. So today, the world is being deprived of such amazing talent, from people we will never know, because they were never allowed to become popular. Comedians back then were not condemned and canceled for such jokes. And as you can see, people were free to laugh at each other back then.

The Golden Age of Comedy. Nobody was offended> everyone laughed and everyone was American

That show where he was roasting so many celebrities on the dais was called Dean Martin's Celebrity Roast which was on weekly during the 70s.

Ahh the best time for comedians they could cross ANY line as long as it was funny and they often did😂😂👍👍

He wasn't prejudiced, he hated everyone!

Charlton Heston was an actor who played Moses in the film The Ten Commandments

Great video Silas! lease keep doing more videos with this true comic legend 😉

You are very open minded for one of your generation. Bless you!!! 👍

Don Rickles instituted a brand new era of public awareness. He taught us how to identify the free-roaming hockey pucks that screw things up. "My hand is bothering me," to Billy Graham: Graham was a famous TV evangelist & Don implied that he wanted some faith healing. "If you were Moses then I was a mau-mau pilot,: to Charlton Heston, the actor that *did* play the role of Moses in a movie. He was also in quite a few movies & even more in TV shows. If you want to see Don Rickles become a Jewish vampire, Innocent Blood is a good one; yes, it's meant to be a comedy.

How about some DIO (Ronnie James Dio)"Don't talk To Strangers" You will go go crazy on this one....I would go with the album version first before live version

I liked him best as Mr. Potato Head in the Toy Story movies. 😃🥔

What up Silas!!! Much love bro.

Comedy exists to mirror back to ourselves the truth about just how ridiculous we are. What makes comedy funny is that it relates to us the needless shame and embarrassment we hide from the rest of the world. As a species, we are the most entertaining creatures on the planet. Comedy, helps us to point the finger back at ourselves and laugh about it. Comedy is the penicillin of a sick soul, and reminds us are all in this together.

One of the greatest funny men of all time. He was insulting but in a good way, miss him.

Was Kelly's heroes mentioned? He played in that movie too and was awesome.

Webster was the kid who walks out at the beginning of the show hands him the mic and tells him to be funny.

Back then when it's a joke, it's a joke nothing more and nothing less. No matter what color skin you are, it was fair game. I never heard anyone complained that they were insulted. Unlike today.

Don Rickles could roast audience members because at every show he spent 15-30 min talking about why humor is so important to us all. We could laugh at each other & no one is offended. & Those roasted found their dinner & hotel paid by Mr Rickles. (In other cultures: Italian/French & more, men being close/kissing, is common & not sexual.)

Clint Eastwood played Moses in the movie The Ten Commandments. So in the movie he split the Red This is a time when people could laugh at themselves. So sad these time is gone. Most of these was in the late 70's into the 80's.

Charlton Heston was Moses in the movie "The Ten Commandments"

2:22 That was no little kid. That was the famous actor Emmanuel Lewis

Comedians don't need a filter. People need to grow tougher skin like people in the past had and who knew that if it's humor, it's not harmful ... so enjoy it and laugh even if a joke or jokes are at your expense.

3:00 CONTEXT: by this time, Billy Graham has been most famous Preacher for multiple decades. has performed multiples times in ALL RELIGIOUS RITES EXCEPT exorcisms & FAITH HEALING (not an independent Baptist thing) BUT HE's insinuating he needs a healing

Charlton Heston (the actor) played Moses in a movie.

The first clip was the 80's, other clips were late 60's and 70's.

We were happy and free and we didn't know it. We are too scared now, too late. Those were the days.

12:40 Frank Sinatra, the famous singer on the right, was often accused of having ties to the Mafia. Even though he denied it, the belief that he was tied to the Mafia endures to this day. In this bit, Don Rickles is making fun of this by pretending to give Frank an "update" on which of his friends has been "hurt" and which of his friends has been "killed." He does this by making up nonsense names that sound Italian but also sound silly -- like "Marco Marcananzo". It is amazing that Sinatra was able to laugh through this because he really hated the fact that people thought he had ties to the Mafia. The repeated kisses ties into this as well -- mimicking the kiss between Michael and Fredo in the Godfather Part II -- a kiss of death.

03:00 Bill Graham was a famous conservative preacher who could command crowds of many thousands of people -- far beyond any Protestant minister before or since. He wasn't necessarily a faith healer but Don Rickles is joking with him by saying, "This hand is bothering me" -- as if to say -- "Okay, lay your hands on me and heal me."

I'm not a Don Rickles fan but I definitely am a muscle shirt Silas fan!!!

Charles Hesrton played Moses in the movie..that I think was the reference.

The Mau Mau were a group of revolutionists in Kenya in the 1950s and 60s. They didnt have an air force.

If you were a celebrity and Don Rickles roasted you, or made you the butt of his joke.. YOU MADE IT! You were in the big time. There was ONLY one celebrity that ever intimidated Don Rickles... and that was Howard Stern. The first time Rickles was on the Stern Show, he didn't roast Howard or anyone else. Howard was upset about that and found out that Rickles was afraid of how Howard's audience would react to it. (This was around the time Howard''s fans were making Chevy Chase's life a living hell)... The next time Don was on the Stern Show, he ripped Howard apart!

Billy Graham was a preacher and faith healer. If he touched you, as a conduit to God, you could be healed. So Rickles says "this hand is bothering me".

POLITICALLY Correct started it all & everyone continued to twist everything including nature and here we are!

Very few people have any balls today. And I'm worried about that.

It's hard for young people to get his jokes because he made fun of major stars who were popular in the 60's , 70's and 80's . He made fun of the most popular actors and politicians. So that's why if you are young you might not get some of his jokes. He was one of a kind with the kind of comedy / insults he threw out there. But make no mistake he loved every single person he made fun of and they loved him because he made a point of being human at the end of his act and said publicly how much he cared for that person or persons.

Some great showbiz references here,

Met him 3 times...great person...

there are no lines that honesty comedy *_SHOULDN'T_* cross.

I think that kid was Webster. He was an adult that looked like a kid.

The best part nobody got OFFENDED!

Silas I loved your George Carlin and MJ reaction videos and I saw this, so I clicked! George Carlin is my favorite Comedian Don Rickles is funny, but I am not as familiar with him as George!

something with your smile bro i like it. keep smiling bro its is nice

You should watch Gilbert Gottfried roasting George Takei.

People in the old days laughed with him not at him, we took the jokes for what they were meant to be. Jokes to make us laugh at ourselves

Need to react to Frank Sinatra My Way. Great singer and you need to know of him in American culture. :) cheers

This is timely comedy. You will never get it if you don’t know the history or the people. You just can’t.

Was the Webster joke about basketball cut out?

Don tickles was on Toy Story 1 and 2 as mr potato head

2:03 CONTEXT: Emmanuel Lewis, star of Webster, was funniest single digit aged kin between 1983 & 1987 so funny kid telling insult comedian "be funny" insinuates he USUALLY ISN'T FUNNY... Be sure, it was scripted. Likely Don Rickles wrote it. And even if he hadn't, he at least agreed to the insult because he would have been justified to walk off stage leaving a 10-15 minute hole in live show

The kisses he's just joking around

billy grahm was a World famous Preacher

Billy Graham was TV evangelist

why did you leave out the joke he made about Webster? (the kid that told him: "be funny.")

Lenny Bruce was the original insult comedian. The obscenity laws killed him

Haha yeah... Rickles. You nailed it bro... You can't say any of this stuff anymore...

watch Heston in The 10 Commandments

Don rickles was I straight-up assassin

YOU'VE GOTTA' LOOK UP 'FOSTER BSROOKKS ROASTS DON RICKLES.....

Very good, but in my view the king of roasts was FOSTER BROOKS. Check him out.

This guy is a low key roaster. You say in this day and age this would not be allowed? Ricky Gervais makes this guy sound like a monk! When he roasted Tom Hanks, he was not amused. I have never seen anyone so pissed off! And for offensive humour, you have obviously never seen Jimmy Carr.

Try Rodney Dangerfield

Rickles was great in his day, today, they'd cancel him. So sad...

The woke culture is slowly dying out. The comedians are no longer taking crap from the politically correct, thank goodness!

Need to look up some Carroll Burnett show She & whole cast laugh out loud riot Make sure you go pee 1st so you dont pee yourself laughing

Could you please do whole Painkiller (by Judas Priest) album reaction... Best metal album of all time and it aint even close, because every song (even the bonus track) is a banger, you'll love it :)

& Im shocked that Don’s bio didnt say or mention that he was the voice of “Mr.Potato Head” in all the Toy Story movies..How could they 4get to mention that nugget of info about him.. so younger generation might recognize who he is...Good thng Will Smith wasnt at one of these roasts..He probably mightv gottn a slap B4 Chris Rock did.. But he roasts evrybody under the rain-bow...White, black, Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, fat, short, celebs, pro athletes & Average Joes/Public/Audience..& aftr roastng them...Wishd them peace & blessngs from God..All in good fun

I'll answer some things you need to know by watching this video, and ignorance is okay. This stuff is way before your time anyhow, but he's a funny ass motherfucker. 2:13 You were probably laughing because his look was "Who does he think he is??" 3:02 Billy Graham was a famous evangelist. Rickles was asking him on national television to heal his hand cuz he's fucking nuts. XD 3:16 Charlton Heston was a famous Hollywood actor. He played Moses in The Ten Commandments in 1956. "If you was Moses, I was a Mao Mao fighter pilot!" Its the same as the expression, "If _________, then I'm a monkey's uncle!" It just means If this happened, then the impossible is true. Mao Mao references Chairman Mao's rule over China. He was a "communist" dictator. Mao Mao fighter pilot to him either sounded funny or he was saying communism doesn't work. Mao Mao fighter pilot sounding funny is basically like saying, "If John's a senator, I'm a purple teletubby marine colonel!" 7:50 Unfortunately this is badly put together. This whole video is a compilation from the One Night Only tribute they made to Don Rickles and his career, so I guess in these videos, they had a formula that you need something crazy in at least some of them. This was the Dean Martin Roast where they roasted Telly Savalas as Man of the Week, and I am guessing this clip here was out of context. 9:57 Idk if you got this but I suspect something happened backstage or in studio where Carson turned his real self on because there were no cameras, and started getting moody. Johnny Carson was probably the most famous television personality back then, but he was also a narcissist, but he portrayed himself as a very charming likeable gentleman. So Don Rickles, being friends with him before he took this show for 40 years, was able to rib him that way, and he could get away with it cuz he was Don Rickles. Carson had immense respect for Mr. Rickles. 12:14 This starts the Frank Sinatra compilation, and this is important to know, that Sinatra was a man who had the Italian Mafia help him go up the ladder of fame in his career. He was around them all his life. He admired them where you can even see the respect he had for them by his gangster poses in movies. He fought these allegations all his life, but there's too much evidence now. He also had Mafia cronies as bodyguards wherever he went. He was also a man with an enormous temper, was bipolar, and had a big ego. People were afraid of him. Example of a story: early in his career, he had to work with another man of similar arrogance, Buddy Rich. The two did not get along. Sinatra ended up throwing a pitcher of water at him but he was able to dodge it. Buddy Rich ends up on the newspapers beaten to a bloody pulp by a mysterious man he never got the identity of. Don Rickles was great friends with Sinatra, where Rickles had liberty to wipe the floor with him. This is what made everyone laugh it up so hard, cuz he made everyone nervous and was crazy as hell. 13:50 Frank Sinatra was afraid of what was called The Kiss of Death. The Mafia got that from Judas from the Bible when he kissed Jesus which was to signal the Roman soldiers to take him away. Don Rickles went on a trip to Europe with Sinatra and their wives. When they would go out shopping, Sinatra would speedwalk away from Rickles making the kissy noises lol. 17:10 All this is out of context. Letterman brought this to the tribute, as Don Rickles coining phrases. A lot of it would make sense if we saw what some of the phrases meant. The "I think I can get to that tree!" was him making fun of Rupert Murdoch being Australian, who Letterman brought up.

So as a young guy do you see the problem with "today this would never be allowed"?????

good schtick from the Rickster......

Nezt Try Greg Gilrado!

I'm pretty sure the this hand is bothering me is a masturbation joke, while he is talking to a famous televangelist of the time.

There are no lines you cant cross in comendy, the line is when you go beyond words and really hurt people.

watch dean martin roasts

Rickles would not be able to do his act these days. Silas, back "in the day" jokes were not considered "hate speech", people could laugh, or possibly be offended.

It's called comedy and being able to laugh at yourself, skin is too thin today

I never thought don rickles was funny ever

Billy graham is a preacher that why ya don’t know him

Alot of the jokes were current at the time so it's tough to understand